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LIST OF INSCRIPTIONS ON TOMBS
OR MONUMENTS IN MADRAS
POSSESSING HISTORICAL OR
ARCHAEOLOGICAL
INTEREST
BY
JULIAN JAMES COTTON, C.S.
" Hath he come now, in season, to know thee,
Hath he seen, what a stranger forgets,
AH the graveyards of exiles below thee,
O Land of Regrets."
Sir A. Lyaij.
REVISED EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES
VOLUME II
EDITED BY
Rao Bahadur DR. B. S. BALIGA, B.A. (Hons.), Ph D- (Lond.),
Curator, Madras Record Office
PRINTED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT, GOVERNMENT PRESS
MADRAS
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VOLUME II
Sito
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Page
Site
Anantapur district —
Gooty
Do. Cemetery
North Arcot district —
1
2,3
Vellore, Old Cemetery near Commissary
bazaar
4-12
Vellore, New Cemetery in Allapuram near
Thorappadi
12, 13
Arnee, Cemetery within the Fort . . /
13-16
Do. Fort •
16
Wandiwash
17
Chittoor Cemetery
17-20
Ranipet Cemetery
20-24
Gangavaram
24
South Arcot district —
Cuddalore, Fort St. David
Do. Erusappa Chotty Street
Cemetery
Cuddalore, Vannarpaliam Cemetery in Palli-
kuppam
Cuddalore Sloper Street Cemetery
Do. Christ Church
Do. Church of England Cemetery . .
Porto Novo . . . .
Do. Roman Catholic Church
Conimere
Pottanur
Bellary district —
Bellary, Cantonment Cemetery
Do. Tomb at the East Fort Gate
Hospet
Ramandroog
Adorn . .
Chingleput district-—
Church at the Little Mount
St. Thomas' Mount, Church of the Expecta-
tion of the Blessed Virgin
Great Mount
St. Thomas' Cantonment Church
St. Thomas' Cantonment Cemetery
Chingleput
Poonamallee
Guindy
Pullalore
Wallajabad
Tripasore
Covelong
Pulicat, Dutch Cemeteries
Do. Roman Catholic Church
Sadras, Dutch Cemetery
Do. Government Cemetery
Coimbatore district —
Coimbatore Town
Karur
Cuddapah district —
Cuddapah Town, Cemetery on the Sidhout
Road
Rameswaram
Mangapatnam
Ganjam district —
Ganjam Cemetery
Berhampur, Bhapur Cemetery
Do. Bejipur Cemetery
Ohicacole
Calingapatam
RuBaellkonda
25, 26
26-29
29, 30
30,31
31-34
34^39
39 41
41
42
42, 43
44-49
49, 50
50
60
51
57, 58
58, 59
60, 61
61-64
64-68
69, 70
70-72
72
72
73, 74
75
75, 76
76-89
89
90-93
93, 94
95-97
93
99-106
106
106
107-111
111, 112
112
113, 114
114
114
Godavari district —
Rajahmundry, Cemetery near old Civil Court
Coeanada
Jaganaikerpuram
Narsapore
Nilapalli
Coringa
Ellore ..
Do. Parade ground
Raghavapuram
Samulcotta
Tuni [[
Palcole
Datchevaram
South Kanara district —
Mangalore Cemetery
Cordel Church . .
Kondapore
Butka!
Kistna district —
Guntur
Do. Roman Catholic Cemetery
Pondugal
!)o. (In the fields)
Kondapalli
Vinukonda
Nakarikallu
Peddaporo
Nadikudi
Sooriapett
Madhavavaram
Tummeracode
Guruzala
Piduguralla
Masulipatam, St. Mary's Cemetery
Do. Fort Cemetery
Do. Fort
Do. Englishpaletn
Do. Old Fort Parade ground
Do. Dutch Cemetery
Do. Compound of the District
Munsif 's Court
Masulipatam, Armenian tombs
Kurnooi district —
Kurnool
Do Yetiavatala Tandrapad Cemetery
Cumbum Fort
Nandyal, Mission Compound
Do. Roman Catholic Cemetery
Madura district —
Madura Town, Cemetery near the Railway
station
Madura Town, St. George's Church
Do. Monument
Dindigul, Cemetery near the Taluk Cutcherry
Ramnad
Tirupparankundram
Kodaikanal
Pamban
Sivaganga
Malabar district—
Caliout, Old Cemetery
Tellicherry
Cannanore Fort
Do. Cantonment Cemetery
Quilon . .
Perintalmanna
Tangacherry*
Anjengo * Fort
A*
115, 116
116
116, 117
117, 118
118
119
119-121
121
121
122 124
124
124-128
128
52-55*
56
56
56
129-132
132
132
132
133
133
133
134
134
134
134
134, 135
135
135
135-138
13S-145
145, 146
146, 147
147, 148
148-153
153, 154
154 156
157, 158
159
158
158
159
160-162
162
163
163
164-168
168
168
168, 169
169
170, 171
172-174
175
175-178
178
178
178-180
180
* Now in the Tinnevelly district.
ii
CONTENTS
Site Page
Malabar distriot — cont.
Anjengo Cemetery . . . . . . . . 181
Chetwai Fort 181
. Cochin, St. Francis Church 181-187
\ Do. Dutch Cemetery 187-189
Do. Compound of the Port Office . . 189
Do. Street Tombstones 190
Do. White Jews Cemetery . . . . 190
Nellore district —
Nellore Cemetery 191-193
Ongole Cemetery .. .. .. .. 194
Nilgiri district—
Ootacamund, St. Stephen's Church and
Cemetery 195-200
Ootacamund St. Thomas* Cemetery . . 201, 202
Do. Stonehouse Hill Cemetery . . 202
; Do Roman ( Catholic Cemetery . . :i02
H Kotagiri ' 202,203
Coonoor . . . . . . . . . . 203
Salem district —
Salem Cemetery 204-206
Adamancottah . . . . . . . . . . 206
Attur . . 207
Dharmapuri Fort glacis . . . . . . 207
Hosur . . . . 207
Krishnagiri . . . . 207, 208
Matagiri 208
Namakal . . , . . 208
Pennagaram Fort glacis . . . . 208
Royaoottah . . 209, 210
Sankaridroog . . 210
Yercaud .. 210,211
Neikundy . . . . ' 211
Tanjore distriot —
Tranquebar .. .. . . 212
Do. New Jerusalem Church . . . . 212-216
Do. Zion Churchyard . . . . 216-219
Do. Old Danish Cemetery . . . , 219-224
Do, Goane8e Church 224
Site Page
Tanjore district — cont.
Negapatam Salt Pans . . . . . . 225
Do. Karicop Cemetery 225-239
Tanjore, Swartz's Churrh 239-241
Do. St, Peter s Church 241,242
Do. St. Peter s Cemetery 242-246
Vallam Cemetery . . . . • . . . 246
Tinnevelly district--
Tuticorin 247
Do. Dutch Cemetery 247, 248
Palamcottah, Burial Ground in Churchyard 248-250
Do. Cantonment Burial Ground 250 -255
Do. Rhenius Tomb . . 255
Do. Monuments in [Christ] Church 255, 256
Courtallum 256
Ottappidariun Cemetery 256,257
Panjalamluirichi Cemetery . . . . 257, 258
Virudupatti Ceme tery . . . . 258
Idaiyangudi 258, 259
Triehinopoly district —
Trichinopoly, Christ Church Cemetery in
the Fort 260-267
Trichinopoly, St. John's Church and
Cemetery 267-274
Trichinopoly, Cauvery Bridge . . . 274-276
Do. St. Mary's Roman Catholic
Cemetery . . . . . . 276
Trichinopoly, Goanese Church . . . . 276
Do. Warriore Cemetery . . . . 277, 278
Malayadipatti . . . . . . . . . . 278
Vizagapata-m district —
Vizagapatam, Old Cemetery 279-289
Do. Mors Janua Vitae Cemetery. 289, 290
Vizianagaram, Cantonment Cemetery . . 290-292
Bimlipatam, Dutch Cemetery . . . . 292-294
Do. Flagstaff Cemetery . . . . 294, 295
Chittivalsa 295
Narsapatam 295
ERRATA SLIP.
Page. number Whether in Inscription or Notes. Line.
2 1055 Notes 2
7 1082 Do. 9
9 1093 Under the Col. * Name * 1
14 1133 Paragraph 1 of n:>tes 7
14 1133 Paragraph 2 of notes 1
17 1145 Notes 17
20 1160 Paragraph 2 of notes 2
33 1229 Notes 7
52 1325 Paragraph 1 of notes 7
SI 1511 Paragraph 3 of notes 3
90 1566 Paragraph 2 of notes preceding the inscrip- 4
tion.
93 1577 Paragraph 2 of notes 1
113 1676 Paragraph 1 of notes 2
118 1726 Notes 14
J 22 1759 Paragraph 2 of notes . . . . . 2
122 1759 Do. 4
124 1776 Under the Col. ' Date ' 1
128 1791 Paragraph 3 of notes 4
128 1791 Do. 11
133 1824 Notes 1
134 1832 Paragraph 1 of notos 5
137 1861 Under the Col. 1 Name ' 2
142 1892 Notes I
142 1895 Paragraph 2 of notes 1
149 1941 Do. 11
151 1945 Paragraph 1 of notes 20
153 1952 Notes 1
157 1969 Paragraph 2 of notes 4
102 2004 Inscription 1
162 2013 Paragraph I of notes 3
16G 2030 Paragraph 1 of notes . . . . - . . . 8
1(57 2032 Inscription 5
1H8 2035 Paragraph 2 of notes 4
176 2091 Do. 1
180 2132 Paragraph 1 of notes 3
181 2 138 Paragraph 1 of notes preceding the inscrip. 1
tion.
190 2213 Paragraph 2 of notes preceding the inscrip- " 1
tion.
199 2284 Inscription 12
202 2308 Notes 9
206 2329 Paragraph 1 of notes 4
207 2343 Inscription 1
213 2377 Notes 2
219 2415 Do 1
221 2422 Paragraph 7 of notes 3
250 2618 Paragraph 2 of notes 2
253 2641 Do. 1
2">4 2646 Paragraph 3 of notes 2
259 2667 Notes 15
265 2698 Paragraph 3 of notes 1
268 2729 Inscription 3*4
268 2730 Do. 1
271 2738 Paragraph 1 of notes 31
279 2770 Notes 1
280 2776 Do 3
285 2791 Do 4
286 2800 Paragraph 2 of notes 4
292 2849 Do. 13
Read the following as notes under item 1930 of .the inscriptions :
See item No. 1862.
Read the following items of inscriptions in round brackets : —
Nos. 1068, 1075 and 2018.
For B«*d
aged •. aged 19
Register fo Register for
Anne Jones Fawny . . Anns Jon bis, Fanjty
died 1789 died 1788.
J ohn A Tanner . . . . J ohn A. Tanner
John Harnson . . John Harrison
Allen Grant . . . . Allan Grant
caskets o caskets of
Wooleston Maria. . . . . Wooleston, Maria.
Maria Lindeborn . . . . Maria Lindenborn
Lord Valentine's . . . . Lord Valentia's
Letreoht Cornelius Lebrecht Cornelius Topan-
Topander der
act 70 aet. 70.
sister . . . . niece
Matthew de Berg [?] . . Matthew de Cruz
Piene Sice [?] . . Pierre Siee
24th Dec 1st Dec.
Peter Syme . . . . Pieter Syme
yeras . . . . . . years
December loth . . . . December 20th
in famous . . . . . . infamous
Maby Jessie . . Mary, Jessie
Yalton Villa . . Yatton Villa
has served . . . . had served
becamn . . became
four brothers, . . . . four (sic) brothers,
Lien . • . . . . Lion.
A valatandrapad . . Avalatandrapad
evor ever
May 7, 1773 .. March 7, 1773
Qpn<$0fi .. . . .. Q#iT($&$
his disconsolate her disconsolate
Prinoep's list . . Prinsep*s list
No. 298 . . . . . No. 299.
Maria Patrmith Cornelia . Maria Potronella Cornelia
St. Franco's . . . . St. Francis
Ion ley . . . . . . lonely
interre . . . . . . interred
Ben amin Hobhouse, . . Benjamin Hobhouse,
dstrict . . . . . . district
the Is the 1st
came ou . . . . . . came out
mraried . . . . . . married
St. Marys' Church, . . St. Mary's Church,
Comma. . . . . . . Comrag.
5th daughter . . . . 6th daughter
Prinoep's list . . . . Prinsep's list
Kodaikana . . Kodaikanal
Lieutenent . . . . Lieutenant
Eltth Emily Fawcett, . . Edith Emily Fawcett,
Harry John Maoleol, . • Harry Jobn Maoleod,
beloved an universally . . beloved and universally
Sir John Goldsboroug's Sir J ohn Goldsborough's
Ann Henchma Ann Henchman.
Lieutenent . . Lieutenant
Vibert's History . . . • Vibart's History
Jacob Joris z. Pits . . Jacob Jorisa, Pits
LIST OF INSCRIPTIONS ON TOMBS OR MONUMENTS IN MADRAS
POSSESSING HISTORICAL OR A RC1LEO LOGICAL INTEREST.
ANANTAPUR DISTRICT.
Serial
number.
Date.
(2)
Namo.
(3)
Inscription.
(4)
GOOTY.
1 Gooty Fort was captured by Lt.-Col. Bowser's detachment in August 171)9 aftor an obstinate resistance on the part of the
garrison ; but it is with concern that we announce tho death of Capt. Haddor RobortB who rocoivod a mortal wound from a
musket ball a few hours before the place surrendered " — A. A. Register for 1800.
1037
1038
1039
1040
1041
1042
1043
1044
1045
1046
24th July
1799.
14th Dec.
1800.
25th Doc.
1801.
14th Doc.
1802.
April
1803.
16th Dec.
1805.
12th May
1806.
20th April
1808.
14 th Jan.
1811.
9th May
1811.
Hadder Roberts
Joseph Taylor
George Dade
Charles Palk
(On 24th July 1799 Captain Hadder Roberts was killed at
Ghooty Fort.)
He entered the army as cadet in 1781, was made Lieutenant August
21, 1790, and Captain April 6, 1799.
(Lieutenant Joseph Taylor, 12th Native Infantry, died at
Ghooty, December 14, 1800.)
Ho entered tho army as cadet in 1795. Ho was made Lieutenant
on July 13, 1797.
(At Gooty died of the wounds ho roceived in action with the
Poligars Lieutenant George Dade, 4th regiment native
cavalry, December 25, 1801.)
Ho entered the cavalry in 1798. Ho was made Lieutonant on June
17, 1800.
(Lieutenant Charles Palk of the 2nd Native Infantry, died at
Gooty, December 14, 1802) (Asiatic Annual Register for
1803).)
He entered tho army as cadet in 1799 and was made Lieutenant
on December 15, 1800.
Archibald Mossman.
Robert
Davis
(At Gooty, Major Archibald Mossman of His Majesty's 73rd
Regiment, April 1803.)
William (Captain Robert Davis of the 2nd Battalion 19th Native
Infantry died at Ghooty, 16th December 1805.)
He ontered tho army as cadet in 1795, was mado Lieutenant on
November 29, 1797, and Captain on September 21, 1804.
Richard Charleton. (Captain Richard Charleton of Artillery died at Gooty on May
12, 1806.)
Ho entered tho artillery as cadet in 1792, was Lioutenant June 1,
1796 and Captain November 7, 1803.
(Ensign George Butcher, 21st Native Infantry, 20th April
1808.)
Ho ontered tho army as cadot in 1806, was made Ensign on July 3,
1807.
George Butcher
William Fair
George Johnston
(Lieutenant William Fair, 21st Native Regiment, died 14th
January 1811 at Gooty.)
Ho entered the army as cadet in 1799 and was mado Lioutenant
December 15, 1800.
(Captain George Johnston of His Majesty's 34th Regiment of
Foot, died at Gooty after an illness of four days in the 44th
of his age in the month of May 1811. [25 years of service.])
An officer who on every occasion during 25 years* service, had evinced
that he possessed the zeal and spirit of a gallant soldior. His
wife died at Gooty on 31st August 1809. Lieutenant George
Johnston married, April 19, 1793, Miss Mary Close.
2
ANANTAPUR DISTRICT — tont.
Serial Date,
number.
(1) (2)
1047 24th May
1815.
1048 1st Oct.
1816.
1049 6th Feb.
1820.
1050 2nd Sept.
1821.
1051 24th Mar.
1822.
Name.
(3)
Imoription.
(4)
1052 16th July
1824.
1053 20th Dec.
1825.
GOOTY CEMETERY.
[At the foot of the Qooiy Rock.']
Alexander Alexander McDonald, Ensign 2nd Battalion, 15th Regiment,
McDonald. N.I., aged 23 years.
He entered the army as cadet in 1806 and was Ensign on July 3, 1807.
T. Maoinnis . . This monument is erected by the officers of H.M., 69th
Regiment tor the memory of Captain T. Maoinnis who died
suddenly at this place, aged 32 years.
James Miller Young. J. M. Young, Esq., Surgeon, aged 26 years. This tomb is erect-
ed by a friend.
"He was Assistant Surgoon to the 1st Battalion, 16th Regiment,
N.I. He died on his route to the southward."
Peter Bruce, Esq., First Judge of the Provincial Court of
the Centre Division, who died on circuit at Gooty.
Ho was writer in 1796. Ho was connected with the district
for more than twenty years, and gave hiB name to the Brucepettah
at Bollary.
Ensign Alexander Ord, aged 18 years. This monument ia
erected by officers of the 1st Battalion, 3rd Regiment N.I.,
as a testimony of their esteem and respect.
Youngest son of John Ord, Esq., of Torradale.
Ho joined the army as cadet in 1820 and was Ensign February 13,
1821.
William Christopher Ord, many years a resident of Calcutta, died
at sea on board the ship " Partridge," on 29th April 1815, on
his passage from England to India in tho 51st year of hiB age.
(Asiatic Journal, April 1816.)
William Grant William Grant Gordon, Lieutenant and Adjutant 20th
Gordon. Regiment, Madras Army, who fell a victim to cholera morbus
in the 24th year of his age. This tomb is erected and this
epitaph inscribed by his beloved brother, Ensign George
Gordon, 48th Regiment.
George Robert Gosling, Esq., of the Madras Civil Service,
Peter Bruce
Alexander Ord
George
Gosling.
Robert
1054 20th Feb.
1827.
1055 26th June
1827.
1056 6th July
1827.
Frederick Benjamin
Griffiths.
Arthur Wilmot
Sib Thomas Munro
aged 25 years. This tomb is erected by his brother H. C.
Gosling, Lieut., 7th Regt. M.N.I.
He died at Anantapoor whilo Acting Head Assistant to the Magistrate
and Collector of Bellary.
Lieutenant Henry C. Gosling retired from the army as a General.
Ho was tho son of John Gosling of Gloucester Place, New Road,
who died May 17th, 1848, and of Elizabeth Curtis Cherry. His
eldest daughter, Anna Maria Elizabeth, married Captain
Froderiok Henry Hope on January 4, 1860 and died Maroh 6,
1864, her two children having died 5th and 6th Maroh 1864 (see
No. 391). Miss Cherry's eldest brother was George Frederick
Cherry, the Resident of Benares, who was killed by Wazir Ali
January 14th, 1799. Her second brother John Hector Cherry
was member of Council at Bombay in 1802. Another brother
was the well-known Mr. Peter Cherry of the Madras Civil Service,
who met his death in a carriage accident at the Cape, November
26, 1823. (See Nos. 601, 2321 and 2573).
F. B. Griffiths, Lieutenant and Quarter Master, 42nd Regi*
ment N.I., aged 24 years.
He joined the army as cadet in 1819 and was made Lieutenant on
April 7, 1820.
Arthur Wilmot, Esq., of the Madras Civil Service, aged 21
years.
He was writer in 1824. Edward Cornwallis Wilmot, B.C.S., pro
bably his brother, died at Calcutta, December 23rd, 1826, aged
years.
Major-General Sir Thomas Munro, Bart, and k.o.b., Governor
of Madras, died at Putticondah on the 6th July 1827 and was
interred at Gooty on the 7th idem. His remains were after-
wards removed to the seat of Government, and deposited in
St. Mary's Church, Fort St. George.
3
ANANTAPUR DISTRICT-<xmf.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription.
,. umber.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
GOOTY CEMETERY— cont.
It in interesting to note that a distinguished Englishman ranks among
the mahatmas or domi-gods who used their influence for the
lasting good of India. The name of Sir Thomas Munro is still
ringed with the halo of divinity hy the people of the Cedod Districts,
whose Principal Collector ho was during the stirring times of the
East India Company. Stories are still told of Munro's justice
and magnanimity and ballads sung in his honour. The incident
that won for him a mahatma's niche in the pooplo's imagination,
writes " Walrus " in the ** Madras Mail M , is thus related in the
annals of Bellary. Mantasala, a little village on the bank of
the Tungabudra, which is famous as containing the tomb of the
Madhva saint, Sri Kaghavendraswamy, and attracts annually
a largo number of pilgrims from Bombay and the Nizam's Domi-
nions and even from Mysore. The landed endowment connected
with this tomb being throatonod with resumption, Munro, it
is said, came to make inquiries. " After removing his boots and
taking off his hat he approached the grave. The Saint thoro*
upon emorgod from his tomb and met Munro. They conversed
for some time regarding tho resumption, but though the saint was
visible to Munro, none of the others who were there could either
see him or hear what he said. The discussion ended and Munro
returned to his tonts and quashed the proposal to resume the
endowment. Being offered some consecrated rice, ho accoptod it
and ordered it to be used for tho preparation of his meals for that
day." Munro is supposed to have contributed to Ids election
to mahatmaship by possessing arms " so long that they reached
to hi3 knees " and in tins respect rosembling the divine heroes
o F the Indian epics.
Munro diod of cholera while on tour in his beloved Ceded District*.
The story goes that shortly before his death he was riding through
a pass in the ghauts and imagined that he saw a garland of flowers
stretched across the valley. This optical delusion is believed
by the natives to have been a presentiment.
At Pattikonda,Government constructed a tope and tank to his
memory ; and at Gooty is the Munro choultry, within which
hangs an engraving of Shoo's full length portrait, copies of which
also adorn the cutcherriea at Bellary and Cuddapah. Munro was
known in the Ceded Districts under the appellation of the Father
of the People ; and in the village of Bellaguppa, Rayadrug taluk,
Bellary district, the eldest sons of a shepherd's family were till
recently named after him Munrolappa. Many local ballads were
composed in his honour, some of which are still sung. Munro
Bridgo, Chetput, was named after Sir Thomas Munro, during
whose Governorship it was built.
Sir Thomas Munro's house and a wall in the compound in Anantapur
are preserved now by Government as ancient monuments.
Munro writes [to his mother 17th May 1795] : — " I remember I left
Cassirncottah about oight years ago, on account of the danger
of hill fevers, but a stronger reason was that I could not live
without playing fives." He frequently used to ,say 44 1 would
rather livo on half pay in a garrison that could boast of a fives
court than vegetate on full batta, where there was ndne."
057 9th July Archibald Maclbod. Captain Archibald Macleod of tho 43rd M.N.I. , who
1827. died of spasmodic cholera at Ramdospet near Ghooty,
aged 34 years and 35 days.
Commandant of the late Honourable the Governor, Sir Thomas
Munro's escort.
On August 4, 1828, Andrew Robertson, C. S., married Isabella Flora,
daughter of late Aloxander M'leod of Dalvoy, county of Moray.
1058 16th Deo. Francis William Francis William Robertson, Esq., 32 years, a member of the
1838. Robertson. Civil Service and 15 years Principal Collector of Bellary,
who diod at Anundapoor, aged 59 years. His zeal in pro-
moting the welfare of tho district over which he presided was
indefatigable and will be remembered so long as the numerous
plantations which he planted and which had gained for him a
well deserved fame continue to flourish.
His memory is still affectionately revered and the munificence and
benevolence of " Rob." Sahib is still the favourite theme among
the old members of a village community.
He joined service as writer in 1806*
vol. n — 1a
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NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
Inscription.
(3) (4)
VELLORE OLD CEMETERY NEAR COMMISSARY BAZAAR.
M unro in a letter to his sister dated 23rd January 1 780 writos "I have almost as much attachment to Vellore as to Northside ; for
it is situated in a dolightful valley, containing all the varieties of meadows, groves and rice fields. On every side you see
romantic hills, some near, some distant, continually assuming new forms as you advance or retire. All around you is classic
ground in the history of this country ; for almost every spot has been the residence of some powerful family now reduced to
misery by frequent revolutions, or the scene of some important action in former wars. Not with more veneration should I
visit the field of Marathon, or the Capitol of the ancient Komans, than I tread on this hallowed ground."
1059
2nd Sept.
1785.
Henry Wihtb
1060 13th July Robert Howland
1788.
1061 4th Nov\ John Gahaoan
1788.
1062 10th Sept, Francis Wbagg
1789.
1063 27th Nov. Richard Nelson
1789.
1064 19 th May James Hunter
1792.
Here lieth the body of Henry White, who departed this life
v°. 2nd September 1785, aged 8 years.
Probably the son of Charles Nicholas White, (C.S., 1776 to 1800),
who married Miss Lotitia Mython Williams on Fobruary 28, 1792.
[Here lieth the body of Lieutenant Robert Howland, late
of tho 21st Battalion, Native Infantry, who departed this
life the 13th July 1788 in the 32nd year of his age.]
He joined the army as cadet in 1779. He was mado Lieutenant on
April 17, 1780.
John Gahaoan, fourth son of Terence and Lucy Gahagan, aged
9 months and 5 days.
Terence Gahagan, M.D., was afterwards Physician- General and
Provincial Grand Master. He died at his house in Quebec Street
Portman Square, January 21st, 1814. In 1775 at Trichinopoly
ho initiated into Freemasonry Omdat-ul-Omrah, afterwards
Nabob of the Carnatic (see No. 1155).
George Gahagan, son of Teronce, of Madras Arm. St. Mary Hill, 1816,
aged 22. Henry Gahagan, son of Terence of Madras, Christ Church
1 799, aged 1 8 ; student ; bar LI, Alurnni West.
Major Francis Wragg, who departod this life 10th September
1789, aged 52 years.
Urquhart says ho was in the 3rd Battalion, European Infantry, and
met his death by a fall from an unruly horse. Wragg, when a
Captain, was among the prisoners taken with Colonel Baillie in
1 7X0 (see No. 94 7). He was Ensign on January 1 6, 1 768, Lieuten-
ant on September 3, 1770 and Captain on December 10, 1779.
This old soldier had spent nearly 40 years of hisjlife in the service
of his country.
Sacred to the memory of Major Richard Nelson, who departed
this life on 27th November 1789 in the 49th year of his age.
This monument was erected by his friend, Capt. Eccles
Nixon.
Urquhart says he was of the Honourable Company's Infantry and
adds : 44 Tho procession and ceremonials, military and masonic,
added to the emphatical and affecting manner in which the Rev.
Doctor Wells delivered the funeral service, rendered the solemnity
of the scene great, inducing that pleasing pensiveness, which is
not oasily doscribod." Nixon, afterwards Major-General Sir
Eccles Nixon, was lost May 29th, 1804, in tho Prince oj Wales
Indmman.
George Wells D.C.L. of Oriel Colloge, Oxford, was naval chaplain and
returned to the fleet. In 1789 he was stationed at Wallajabhad
with the 1st Battalion of the Company's European Regiment
Miss Elizebeth Anne Wells married October 17, 1789, Capt.
James Bagshaw Butler (he died on January 12, 1 796).
Here lieth the remains of James Huntkk, Lieutenant in the
Royal Artillery, born the 15th November 1755 and departed
this life on the 19th May A.D. 1792. This monument was
erected by his affectionate brother Arthur Hunter.
(A banyan tree crashed upon it).
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NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT — conl.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date. Name. Inscription.
(2) (3) (4)
VELLORE OLD CEMETERY NEAR COMMISSARY BAZAAR — cont.
1065 22nd May Duoald Campbell . ,
1792.
1066 2nd Oct. Robert Ogilvib
1792.
1067 28th June John Wynch
1797.
1068 21st Oct. Andrew Boyd
1798.
1069 11th May Robert Sale
1799.
Dugald Campbell, Captain, 74th Regt. Foot, died 22nd May
1792 in the 37th year of his age.
Another Captain Dugald Campbell of tho 98th Regiment was among
those with Goneral Mathews poisoned in 1783 by order of Tippoo.
Tho officer here buried fought before Seringapatam in 1792, and
his gallantry in the attack on Sultan's redoubt was specially
praised. He married Miss Elizabeth Mackay, July 31st, 1777.
His second son Daniel Pasley died an infant at Madras, January
9th, 1780.
Here lieth the body of Captain Robert Ogilvie, aged 41 years,
who departed this life the 2nd October 1792. This tribute
of regard and gratitude was erected by his old and faithful
native servant Viragoo.
The deceased shot himself.
He entered tho army in 1771 as cadet and was made Captain on
April 16, 1785.
This monument was erected by the British officers of the garrison
of Vellore, as a tribute due from them to the memory of their
late worthy Paymaster John Wynch, Esq., who departed
this life on the 28th Juno 1797, Sincerely and universally
regretted, Aged 40 years.
An enormous peopul tree grows in the enclosure of this tomb . Wynch
was born 1 757. He was a member of tho Civil Service, which
ho joined as writer in 1775. He was first a free merchant.
Afterwards he was an Ensign in tho J st Madras European Regi-
ment, whence ho was transferred to the Civil Service from the
4th September 1775.
Ho is a son of Alexander Wynch who was Governor of Fort St. George
from 1773-75 and diod in'.Harloy Street in May 1781.
[Andrew Boyd (1st European Infantry) died at Vellore, October
21, 1798.1
He entered the army as Cadet in 1780, was made a Lieutenant on
February 22, 1788 and a Captain on November 29. 1797.
Sacred to the memory of Colonel Robert Sale, who commanded
this garrison, aged 64 years. Exemplary private worth and
distinguished public integrity characterized the tenor of all
his actions. His long and useful life was a continued blessing
to his family, of advantage to society and of benefit to his
country in tho practice of every rub of active benovolence.
His memory will long be cherished by those to whom his
virtues were familiar — Obiit 11th May 1799, artatis 64 years.
According to the Bengal Obituary " Sir Robert Sale, the hero of
Jellalabad was the son of Colonel Sale, one of the fighting Colonels
of the East India Company. He was, we believe, engaged in a
sortie from Vellore when his gallant son was born, which event
took place on the 2nd September 1 782. His father was a Yorkshire-
man ; his mother a Kentish woman and daughter of Commodore
Beynes, who was lost with his ship in the West Indies." In the
Dictionary of National Biography tho name is given as Harry
Brine, Esq., of Buckden, Huntingdonshire, and the date of birth
as 19th September 1782. Florentia Lady Sale was the daughter
of George Wynch, a Madras civilian and grand-daughter of Alexan«
der Wynch, Governor of Fort St. George in 1773. She married
Sir Robert Sale, when a Captain in the 1 2th Foot, May 1 6th, 1 809,
at Mangalore (see No. 1469). Captain H.W. Sale married Miss
S. Ford on June 1, 1815.
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NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT — cont.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
Name.
Inscription.
1070
6th
1799
1071 1799
Eric Mack ay
1072
22nd Jan.
1800.
1073
1074
1075
2l8t Sept.
1800.
8 th Oct.
1801.
12th Apr.
1801.
1076
1077
1078
27th Jan.
1802.
25th Mar.
1802.
7th Aug.
1803.
(2) (3) (4)
VELLORE OLD CEMETERY NEAR COMMISSARY BAZAAR — cont,
Juno Henry Williamson. Sacred to the memory of Captain Henry Williamson of the
4th Regiment of Cavalry, who died on the 6th June A.D. 1799,
aged 35 years. .His death, lamented by all who knewhira,
was occasioned by excessive fatigue during the glorious cam-
paign, which terminated in the fall of Tippoo Sultan.
Ho joined the Cavalry as cadet in 1779, was Lieutenant August 12,
1788 and Captain in 1796.
Eric Mackay, Serjeant in His Majesty's Scotch Brigade born
in the Parish of Larg, county of Sutherland, aged 30 years.
Perhaps a brother of the subjoct of the following notice : " For the
satisfaction of my Highland friends, I tako this opportunity of
commemorating the fall of John Mackay, alias Donn, a corporal
in the 73rd Kogimmit, son to Kobort Dorm, the famous Highland
bard, whose singular talent for tho boautiful and extemporaneous
composition of Gaelic poetry was held in such esteem by the
Highland Society. Tho son of the burd frequently revived the
drooping spirits of his countrymen upon the march, by singing in a
pleasant manner the humourous and lively productions of his
father. He was killed by a cannon ball, on the 13th January
1782 and on tho same evening was interred at Vellore by his
disconsolate comrados with all the honours of war." (Narrative
of the Military operations on tho Coromandol Coast, by Innes
Munro, Esq., Captain in the late 73rd or Lord Macleod's Rogiment
of Highlanders, 1789.)
William Baillie . . William Batllie, late Serjeant of His Majesty's Scotch Brigade,
in hope of a blessed resurrection.
Lord Valentia mentions that a Serjeant of the Scotch Brigade for a
small wager encountered the alligators in the Fort ditch. He
enterod tho water and was several times drawn under ; but oscaped
at last with several severe wounds. See Captain Hervey'a
* Ten years in India * Vol. II, p. 139.
Higg in bottom Lowe. Sacred to the memory of Captain Higginbottom Lowe of
H.M.'s 33rd Regiment of Foot who departed this life the 21st
September J 800, in the 32nd year of his age.
Hector McQuarrie. Also Lieutenant Hector McQuarrie of H.M.'s 33rd Regiment*
who died the 8th Day of October 1801. This monumont was
erected by their brother officers as a Token of Regard.
[William King M. E. R.(Captain) who died at Vellore, April I2 t
1801 was the nephow of David King, 1708 — 1768 who married
Elizabeth Whittle (born about 1694, died 1 April 1774).
He was the son of David's brother Richard, who died January
1772.J
Mrs. Elizabeth King's brother (Whittle) had a son John who was
Governor of Bengal for about 12 months and afterwards resided
in France.
Here lieth the body of William Hefferman late pensioner in
the Honourable Company European Infantry who departed
this life 27th January 1802, aged 45 years [nearly illegible].
Captain Thomas Currie, aged 39 years, 20 of which were
devoted to the service of his country.
Of the 13th Madras Infantry.
He joined tho army as cadet in 1778, was made Lieut. August
21, 1790 and Captain May 12, 1799.
Sacred to tho memory of Lieutenant D. MoDouoall, H.M. 33rd
Regiment, who departed this life 7th August 1803. This
monument is erected as a last mark of esteem by his sincere
friend Lieut. O'Hara of the same corps.
William Kino
William Hefferman.
Thomas Currie
Donald MoDouoall.
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NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT — cont.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
VELLORE OLD CEMETERY NEAR COMMISSARY BAZAAR — cont.
1079 1st May James McRoberts . . Sacred to tho memory of Mr. James McRoberts, Assistant
1804. Surgeon, H.M. 33rd Rogiment, who died May 1st, 1804, aged
27 years. He was deservedly estoomed by the Officers of the
Corps and all who knew him.
To the memory of Captain .Fames Bull of H.M.'s 34th Regiment
of Foot who died on the 5th of J line 1805, aged 21 years.
Son of Major Bull, and younger brother of Colonel Kobort Alexander
Bull, R.H.A., C.B. arid K.H. This officer had exchanged from
a Hussar Rogimont into tho 34th, and was Hhot in a duel near
the Chitteri tank, Velio re, by Lieutenant Sandys, of tho 34th.
Bull, who was engaged to be married, had refused to join the mess
and tho Irish officers of tho regiment had drawn lots as to which
of them was to call him out. Sandys and Ycaman, his second, were
tried for murder at Madras and acquitted, but subsequently
cashiered by Court-martial for conspiracy against Captain Bull's
life, together with a third brother officer, Lieutenant .Johnson of
the 34th. It is noteworthy that Bull was gazetted as having
" resigned " on the 7th of June, tho' ho died on tho 5th of that
month. The commission was given out of tho Regiment, by
purchase, to Lieutenant -1. Young of the 8th Light Dragoons.
Possibly tho purchase-money was secured for the family of
Captain Bull. The records of tho Court-martial on this case are
to be seen at Fort St. George, Madras. A detailed account of the
duel will be found in Carey's " Good Old Days of John Company,'*
1 90(3 edition, Vol. I, pages 477 to 479, and in tho Memoirs of George
Elers, Captain in the 12th Foot.
St. John Fancourt, Lieutenant-Colonel of H.M.'s 34th Regi-
ment, aged 37 years, Commandant of Vol lore, who was killed
while gallantly defending the Garrison in the mutiny of the
sepoys on the 10th July 1806.
His widow escaped by hiding with her children in a fowlhouse.
Her narrativo was published in tho l< Plain Englishman," 1821,
a popular work edited by Edward Hawke Locker (at the time
a naval officer at Madras, afterwards Commissioner of Greenwich
Hospital) and Charles Knight. It is quoted in MacFarlano's
" Indian Empire." Mr. A. F. Cox, in the District Manual, follows
tho account givon by Captain Blakiston in his " Military Adven-
tures under Wellington," Vol. I, Chap. XVI, pp. 281-301.
Wilson's " History of tho Madras Army " reprints tho evidence
of officers taken at the time. Assistant Surgeons Dean and
Jones were tho heroos of tho defence.
Cassivelaun Fancourt is possibly his son. Ho was father to Major
Fancourt a popular M.P. (Elers* Memoirs).
1082 10th July Charles Armstrong. Charles Armstrong, a Major in the service of the .Honorable
1806. * East India Company 16th N.I. While journeying to Madras,
in tho immediate hope of returning to his native country, he
was barbarously murdered near this place on the 10th July
1806. Possessing unbounded benevolence and every quality
of tho soldier, he was endeared to the army in which he served
and had acquired numerous friends. The monument it
humblo, but the record is true.
According to the District Manual, page 84, 41 Major Armstrong
was passing outside the Fort, in a palanquin, when he heard
the sound of fire-arms. Alighting, he advanced to the crest of
the glacis, and asked what the firing meant. The answer was
a volley fired by some mutineers on tho ramparts, which killed
him on the spot." Armstrong was captain of the Cadet Com-
pany at Chingleput and received 2 pieces of plate valued at 200
Fags .each from the cadets under his command. (Asiatic Annual
Register fo iU02 .pages 41—2.)
1080 5th Juno James Bull ..
1805.
1081 10th July St. John Fancourt.
1806.
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NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT — cont.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
VELLORE OLD CEMETERY NEAR COMMISSARY BAZAAR — cont.
1083 10th July Jambs Waltbb Lapids Here lies the body of Jambs Walter Lapids Ty. Serjeant
1806. who died on the 10th July 1806, aged 56 years.
1084 Do. Solomon Pbost . • Sacred to the memory of Serjeant Solomon Fbost who departed
this lift? at Vellore on Ihe 10th July 1806, aged 69 years.
1085 Do. John Michael Tich- Lieut. J. M. Tichboubne of the 6th Battalion, 4th Regiment,
bourne. N.I., aged 19 years, who was killed in Vellore on the 10th July
1806.
1086 Do. James Isaac Miller. Here lieth the body of Captain James Isaac Miller who
departed this life the 10th day of July 1806, aged 21 years.
Of the 1st N.I.
1087 Do. John Popham and Lieuts. Popham and Eley, 5 Sergeants, 4 Corporals, 1
John Eley. Drummer, and 70 Privates of H.M.'s 69th Regiment, who fell,
while bravely resisting the mutinoers at Vellore. This
monument erected in 1863-64, previous to the second depar-
ture of the Regiment from India, marks the spot where they
rest.
The number of the privates killed should be 90 ; and 15 more subse-
quently diod of their wounds. Colonel .James McKorras, Captain
David Willison, and Lieutenants Philip Winchip and George
Jolly (all of the 23rd N.I.) and Capt. James Isaac Miller, Lieut.
Thos. O'Reilly, Lieutenants Charles Kenworthy Smart, John
Michael Tichbome (1st N.I.) were also killed by the mutineers
but no monuments to their momory are discoverable. 44 One
of the first objects that struck me on entering the Fort, was the
body of Col. M'Kerras, who commanded one of the sepoy batta-
lions, lying in the middle of the parade. " Blakiston, page 295.
The following account of the mutiny is given in L. J. Trotter's
44 History of India" : — 44 In the early morning of the 10th July
1806, the two native rogiments at Vellore (one of which had been
largoly recruited from tho ranks of Tippoo's army) rose in sudden
mutiny, attacked the European barracks, where some 370 men
of tho 69th Foot (the present 2nd battalion of the Welsh .Regiment)
were still sleeping, poured volley after volley into their helpless
victims, and shot down thirteen officers coming out from their
rooms. Happily for the survivors, help was soon to reach them
in their desperate need from the garrison of Arcot, eight miles
off. At the head of a squadron of his 19th Dragoons and a few
gallopor guns, Colonel Gillespie (afterwards Sir ft. ft. Gillespie
and killed in 1814 before the hill-fort of Kalanga on the Nepalose
frontier) rode at his best pace to the scene of massacro, blew open
the gate of the fortross and with the help of those inside dealt
heavy destruction on the mutineers, hundreds of whom were
shot, sabred or taken prisoners. Of the 69th, however, ninety-
five men and officers lay dead and ninety-one wounded. (For
a short sketch of his career, see Asiatic Journal, August, 1816).
Lord William Bontinck, Governor of Madras, was summarily
ordered liome without a hearing : but the real culprit was Sir
John Craddock, the Commandor- in- Chief, who had issued a set
of orders regarding uniform, which tho sepoys chose to regard
as a wilful attempt to tamper with the creed and customs of
their race. They were forbiddon to wear ear-rings on parade
and were ordered to shave their chins and exchange their turbans
for a kind of shako. The spirit of distrust and disaffection engen-
dered by these orders was carefully fomented by the Mohamedans
in Vellore, where Tippoo's family wore then living : and one
of the results of tho mutiny was the removal of the Mysore
pensioners to Calcutta where they still reside." F. W. Blunt
in the Monthly Roviow for September 1906, publishes a letter
which was written from Madras in September 1806, by a lady
whose husband occupied a high position and which narrates
the causes that led to this mutiny and the circumstances of it.
9
NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT — cont.
Serial
number,
a)
1088
Date. Name. Inscription.
(2) (3) (4)
VELLORE OLD CEMETERY NEAR COMMISSARY BAZAAR — cont.
14th Jan. Thomas Baynes
1807.
1089
1090
1091
1092
1093
1094
10th May
1807.
6th Sept.
1807.
15th Juno
1808.
27th June
1810.
20th Aug.
1811.
17 th May
1813.
Thomas Longan
Henry
Bagshaw
Wood
Joseph
Sacred to the memory of Captain Thomas Baynes, XX Regi-
ment Native Infantry obiit xivth January 1807, univer-
sally rogrettod.
He joined the Madras Army in 1790 as Cadet, was made Lieut.
May 12, 1794 and Capt. Dec. 14, 1802.
41 Captain iiaynes was employed throughout the Campaign of
Assaye in the important and difficult duty of buying up our
supplios for which purpose he had under his command a flying
detachment, in the conduct of which his skill and gallantry were
conspicuous. On this occasion ho was accompanied by a
largo convoy of Rringarios " (Cf. Old Sopoy Muleteers) — Blakiston
I, page 191.
(At Velloro Captain Thomas Longan 20th Regiment, Native
Infantry.)
Henry Joseph Bagshaw, aged 1 year and 11 months.
George Dodwell
Anne Jones Fanny
Benjamin Impey
1095
1096
23rd Juno
1813.
10th Feb.
1814.
W. R. White
Amelia Lang
1097
1098
1099
1100
12th Feb.
1814.
25th Nov.
1816.
Adam
Smith.
Thomas Gurnell
10th May Thomas Penman
1817.
9th July M. Nixon
1817.
vol. n— 2
Sacred to tho memory of Lieutenant Wood of His Majesty's
30th Regiment of Foot, who died the 15th Juno 1808 in the
27th yoar of his age, much lamented by his brother officers.
To the memory of Ensign George Dodwell of the 1st
Battalion 13th Regiment N.I. of this Establishment who
died on the 27th June 1810 in his twenty-third yoar.
Fanny, wife of William Jones departed this life 20th August
1811.
Benjamin Impey, late Brevet Major in H.M.'s 86th Regiment 9
aged 38 years.
Captain James Sawey Impey, late of the Pension Establishment
died at Vizagapatam, November 2nd, 1831. He joined the
army in 18 1 9 as Cadet, was Lieut. May 1, 1824. He was in-
valided December 22, 1829 in India. Another Ewd. H. Impey
was a Lieut, on 27th December 1836. He joined the army as
Cadet in 1832. Another Capt. Ramsay Francis Irvine Impey,
21st Native Infantry, died at Ferambur on Feb. 28, I860.
(At Vellore 23rd June 1813 Lieut. W. R. White H.M. 86th
Regiment, L.I., aged 27 years.)
According to the Madras Almanac for 1814, he died on June 25,
1813.
Mrs. Amelia Lang, wife of Major-General Ross Lang, aged 48
years.
Major-General Ross Lang of H.E.I. Company and eldest son of
Lt.-Coneral Ross Lang of the establishment died in the Ceded
Districts, August 23rd, 1822, in the GOth year of his age
and 44th yoar of Ins service. He married Miss Amelia Felling,
December 3rd, 1792. His father Lieut. -General Ross Lang
married Mrs. Ann Oats on March 15, 1773. She was the widow
of Thomas Oats and daughter of Mr. Thomas Felling."
Lookhart Adam Lockhart Smith, Esq., Surgeon of the 2ndBatt. 12th
Regiment, Native Infantry.
Lieut.-Col. Thomas Gurnell, Commandant of the 2nd
N. Veteran Battalion, aged 49 years.
He married Miss Caroline Molesworth, November 2, 1807. Lieut,
Tongue, H. M. 30th Regt., married Miss Gurnell, daughter of
Major Gurnell, on 2nd May 1811 at Trichinopoly.
Thomas, the infant son of M.E.W. Penmam, aged 13 months
and 16 days.
Mrs. M. Nixon, who died 9th July 1817, 30 years.
" Be ye also ready for in suoh an hour
as you think not the son of man Cometh."
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NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT — cont.
Serial
number
(1)
Date.
Name.
Inscription.
(2) (3) (4)
VELLORE OLD CEMETERY NEAR COMMISSARY BAZAAR — cont.
1101
9th Aug.
1821.
George Hewetson.
1102
1103
25th June
1822.
20th July
1822.
John Green
Sacred to the memory of George Hewetson, Esq., Surgeon
Royal Navy and the Hon b1 ©. Compys. Service Madras Estab-
lishment who died at Vellore on the 9th August 1821. As a
mark of filial respect his son, as a testimony of esteem
John Jollio, Esq., his friend, erected this monument to his
memory.
The date of his Commission is 28th July 2811.
Sacred to the memory of John Green Adjutant 2 N.V. Batta-
lion who departed this life 25th June 1822 aged 51 years.
This stone is placed by his afflicted widow.
1104 22nd Nov.
1823.
George Lennox Nixon Here lieth the remains of Captain George Lennox Nixon who
died on the 20th day of July 1822, Aged 44 years and Seven
months, llequiescat in Pace.
He joined tho army in 1799, was Lieut. December 15, 1800 and
Captain June 30, 1810.
Alexander Mackin- Lieut. -Colonel Alexander Mackintosh, aged 49 years.
TOSH.
On one of the sides of a fine granite tomb are carved very clearly the
family armorial boarings of the deceased : — Escutcheon with
four quarterings, (1) a cat rampant, (2) a hand holding a glovo,
(3) a lion and (4) a quaint old Viking's ship in full sail, with the
motto of tho Mackintoshes " Touch not the cat but (i.e., without)
a glove." Theso are also tho arms of the clan Chattan, and the
Macphersons, and figure on the brass of Sir Horbort Macpherson,
V. C. (No. 454). He married at Inverness 23rd March 1821,
Anna eldest daughter of the late David Sheriff, Esq.
1105
20th March David Mansfield
1824.
1106
23rd May
1828.
Daniel
Smith.
Sacred to tho memory of Lieutenant David Mansfield Adjut-
ant 1 Battalion 7th Regiment Native Infantry who died in
this station on 20th March 1824, aged 29 years.
Ho joined the array in 1811 and was made Lieut, in October 10,
1817.
Crommelin Sacred to the memory of Daniel Crommelin Smith, Lieut. -
Col. in the Madras Native Infantry. Ho departed this
life on the 23rd day of May 1828, aged 46 years unblessed
through life, lamented in his end. The conduct of this
excellent man was regulated by the noblest principles that
can adorn tho human mind in which were blended the per-
fection of moral truth and the sublimity of Christian grace.
Ho joined the army in 1802, was Lieutenant March 1, 1804, Captain
March 23, 1816, Major March 31, 1822 and Lieutenant- Colonel
on May 5, 1825.
1107
13th Feb.
1830.
Lake
Bo yes.
1108 15th Oct. William
1830. Page.
Torreano Lake Torreano Boyes, Ensign, 10th M.I., seventh son of
Capt. William Boyes of the 76th Regiment, born at sea
6th March 1807. This monument was erected by his brother
Capt. John Monson Boyes of the 38th N.I.
Capt. William Boyes married Miss Lorencine Valliere in May
1800 at Quilon.
George Sacred to the memory of Major William George Page of tho
48th Regiment, N.T., who died 15th October 1830, aged about
46 years.
He joined the army in 1804, was Lieutenant July 17, 1805, Captain
February 23, 1821 and Major August 7, 1828.
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NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT — cont.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
Name.
Lisoription.
(2) (3) (4)
VELLORE OLD CEMETERY NEAR COMMISSARY BAZAAR — cont.
1109 12th Sept. James Stephen Sacred to the memory of James Stephen Lushinoton, Esq.,
1832. Lushinoton. Bengal Civil Service, private Secretary to his father, the
Right Hon'ble Stephen Rumbold Lushington, Governor
of Madras. In firmness of principle, in gentlenoss of dis-
position, in power of intelloct, none oxceeded the doceased.
Through the whole of his short and brilliant career, his great
ambition was the public good, and the promise of excellence
so early developed, made his loss moro doeply deplorable.
He died at Laulpot (near Arcot), after a lingering and painfuJ
illness, aged 28 years.
At the foot of this tomb is an inscription to Stephen Rumbold
Lushington, an infant son of Charles May Lushington, C.S., youn-
ger brother of the Governor of Madras, who died at Vellore on
May 17th, 1832, aged 2 years. A statue of James Lushington by
Flaxman has been erected in St. Georgo's Cathedral, Madras.
He accompaniod Bishop Hebor from Allahabad to Lucknow
t during his tour in 1824 (See No. 470).
1110
1111
1112
20bh Feb.
1833.
18th April
1844.
30th Deo.
1846.
Thomas Lewis
Rev. Thomas Lewis, A.M., late of Queen's College, Oxford,
Chaplain, aged 45 years.
Thomas A. Mabchant. Sacred to the memory of Staff Sergeant Thomas A. Marchant
who died on the 18th of April 1844, aged 70 years. This
tomb is erected by his affectionate daughter Mary Anne
Keslior.
Mary Sidonib Sacred to the memory of Mary Sidonib Gunning, youngest
Gunning. child of the late Major John Gunning, 17th Regiment, Native
Infantry, Commanding the Nair Brigade in Travancore,
who departed this life on the 30th December 1846, aged 3
years. The tribute of the departed little ones and her
parents attachod friend Colin Paterson, M.D., 1847. (See
No. 2660.)
1113
11th Aug.
1849.
Thomas Marchant
1114
1115
10th Oct.
1854.
31st Dec.
1857.
Paul Boughpilly
Bjllington
Boyd.
Bainbs
Sacred to the memory of Thomas Marchant, Esq., a highly
talented and estimable young man. He died at Chickmaga-
loor in his Coffoo estate, of Cholera on the 11th of August
1849. His remains were brought hero and his tomb was
erected by his sister M. A. Ottley. Born the 29th March
1834.
To the memory of Paul Boughpilly, Manager of the Indigo
Manufactory, aged 63 years.
Lieutenant B. B. Boyd, late of the Madras Engineers, aged
18 years and one month, who was accidentally killed whilst
zealously superintending operations on the Palar bridge
near Vellore. Erected by the officers of his corps.
According to a correspondent, who was living in the district at
the time, the deceased in his anxiety to have the arch completed
on a certain date, and against the advice of older heads, removed
the centerings with a thiok bamboo himself and was crushed
under the damp mans of bricks and mortars.
VOL II — 2A
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Serial Date. Neme. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) W
VELLORE OLD CEMETERY NEAR COMMISSARY BAZAAR — cont.
1116 12th Nov. Henry Douglas Captain Henry Douglas Hart, 39th Regimont, Madras N.I.,
1858. Hart. aged 35 years, who diod at Velloro by the hand of a fanatic
sepoy assassin on the 12th November 1858.
This officer waH shot, while standing on the steps of the late General
Ottley's bungalow, by a sepoy who stood on the ramparts of the
Fort. The cause of the attack is not known. The sepoy is
said to have stood on the ramparts, threatening the house re-
ferred to, the inmate of which, a lady, had gone to Captain Hart
for help ; he, returning with her to investigate, was shot on
alighting from his carriage. A correspondent, who was living
noar Velloro at the time, gives the following account of the occur-
rence : — On tho night in question the sopoy who was on guard
at the Flag Staff bastion, in the Fort, fired off his musket. The
Jail, in those days, was in tho Fort near the Flag Staff. Old
Sergeant Stafford, the Jailor, hearing tho report, wont out to
enquire, and was shot dead. The sepoy then, by some means,
foul or fair, managed to pass tho sentries, and made for the officers*
lines. Captain Hart happened to be the first officor driving to
the scene of mischief, and was unexpectedly met by the sepoy
near the Commissariat Office, and shot in his phaeton. A strong
guard with other officers had by this time turnod out, and the
sepoy placed himself on the Mahomedan Saint's tomb situated
on tho south-east glacis of the Fort. Here he threatened either
to " do " for the rest, or die, when askod to lay down his arms
and surrender. The officer in charge seems to have known that
tho sepoy was able to defend himself with bayonet only, and so
closed on the villain with drawn sword, disarmod and made him
a prisoner. When his ammunition pouches were examined,
it was found that there was onough ball ammunition to have
done a deal more mischief, but not a singlo cap. Ho had dropped
them out of the cap pouch, which he left open, while running
about. Ho was handed over to, and tried and sentenced by the
civil authorities, and was hanged on the plain betweon tho Fort
and the market. (Mr. LoFanu's note.)
VELLORE NEW CEMETERY IN ALLAPURAM NEAR THORAPPADI.
1117 9th April
1869.
1118 21st July
1869.
1119 Hth Feb.
1873.
1120 2nd April
1876.
1121 5th Nov.
1876.
1122 16th April
1877.
Eleanor Isabella
Luxmoore.
Helen Isabella
Mayne.
Caroline Isabella
Cox.
Ernest Alexander
Morant.
Henry Whyte
A. W. Drayner
In memory of Eleanor Isabella tho doarly loved second child
of Corigndon and Virginia Luxmoore who died of Dyptheria
in the Jollarpett waiting Room on tho 9th April 1809, aged
11 months and 12 days.
Helen Isabella, the daughter of Captain Robert Mayne, aged
4 years and 2 months.
Caroline Isabella, wife of Surgeon Major John Anderson Cox,
M.D., Madras Army, aged 32 years.
In memory of Ernest Alexander Morant, late Captain, 1st
Royals. Born at Hendon, Middlesex, March 1st, 1841, Died
at Velloro April 2nd, 1876 (seven weeks after his lamented
wife), aged 35 years.
Separate from his brethren.
Captain Henry Whyte, 14th Regiment, Native Infantry, aged
35 years.
In memory of Colonel A. W. Drayner, Commandant 14th
Regiment, Native Infantry, born at Hytho, Kents, 8th May
1824. Died at Vellore, 16th April 1877. Erected by his
brother officers.
1123 18th Aug. Elizabeth Mayne .. Sacred to the memory of Elizabeth the dearly loved wife of
1879. Captain Robert Mayne, died August 18th, 1879.
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number.
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VELLORE NEW CEMETERY IN ALLAPURAM NEAR THORAPPADI— con*.
1124 2Lst Juno Minnie Scudder .. Minnie wife of Reverend E. C. Scuddor, Jr., aged 24 years,
1883. June 21, 1883. Arrived at Madras from America, December
30th, 1882. Died at Ami, a wife, a mother, a missionary
and a Saint within 1 year.
1125 12th Jan. Robert Mayne Sacred to the memory of Captain Robert Ma yne, Late 37th
1905. Grenadiers, M.I. Born 5th April 1821, Died 12th January
1905.
1126 20th Fob. Henry Allen War- In loving memory of Henry Allen Waring, the beloved and
1900. ing. only son of William & Lydia Waring, who died February
20th, 1906, aged 31 years. Faithful unto death.
" Lives cf Good men all remind us."
1127 6th Feb. A. A. Dignum . . In memory of Arthur Abbot Dionum, born at Liverpool July
1908. 27th, 1856, Died at Velloro Feb. 6th, 1908.
For 26 years a diligent and faithful missionary in the Salem and
Tlnnevelly Districts.
1128 17th Oct. Jared Waterbury Rev. Jared Waterbury Scudder, M.D., D.D., ono of India's
1910. Scudder. own born at Kotagiri, February 8th, 1830, commissioned
as a missionary October 1855. Privileged to give 55 years
of missionary sorvice for India, Died at Palmaner Oct.
17th, 1910.
1129 10th Dec. Julia C. Scudder .. In memory of Julta C. Scudder, wife of Rev. J. W. Scudder,
1913. born at Savannah, U.S.A., Dec. 10, 1831. Passed away
at Palmaner, Dec. 10, 1913. Privileged to give 58 yoars
of her life for the good of India thereby blessing many.
1130 2nd Dec. E.G. Scudder, Rev. Ezekiel Carmeon Scudder, A. A. M., for 33 years.
1919. Mabel Scudder. Born at Chittoor, 25—6—1856. Died at Vellore 2 — 12 — 1919.
16th Mabkl his wife died 16 — 4 — 1918. His Indian service 1889-
April 1918.
1918.
[On Cross], After he had served his own generation. By
the will of God, he fell asleep.
CEMETERY WITHIN THE FORT, ARNEE.
The grave yard is a very interesting one and situated to the west of a long line of deserted bomb-proof barracks in the old
and dismantled Fort of Arnee, 7 miles from *Kalambur station on the South Indian Kailway. It is described in Warren's
book '* rindo Anglaise," and also in Hervey's " Ton years in India " Volumo II, page 153, who says that a worse station
could not have been choson for locating European troops. Ooucbmaii says it- felt like desecration to ride through Arnee
Fort in a motor car.
The estate itself is not without intorost. It has formod part of the arena of much of the fighting of the past, and lias seen
the rapid march of Clivo from Arcot when he attacked and won the fort of Ami from Kaja Sahib. Under the walls
of that fort, too, Sir Eyre Cooto defeated Haider and his ally Lally, and later on the British army concentrated there
for tho campaign of 1790. The estato itself is a feudal grant of land, or jaghir, originally given for military service
and acquired by ono Vedajee Bhaskor Punt, under a pormanent Simnad from the Rajah of Bijapore. Unfortunately
the archives of the family have been deatroyod and little, boyond tradition, is ever likely to be known about it. The
hereditary right of the Ami Jaghirdars to succeed to tho Jaghir is maintained to have been fully recognised and
guaranteed by the stipulations of the Treaty of 1762. But since then, in 1825, two additional conditions have been
imposed by Government, to wit, tho regular payment of Khandam allowances to members of the family and the liability
to resumption by Government on failure to carry out the conditions of tho Sunnad.
1131 12th Aug. John Macalistkr .. Sacred to the memory of John Macalistek, Esquire,' Captain
1784. and Commander of the Fourth Regiment of Cavalry in the
Honorable East India Company's Service. Obiit 12 Augusti
die 1784, anno aotatis 38 et 10 menses.
This is the oldost tomb in the district. In 1784 the Madras Govern*
mont formed a regular establishment of cavalry by taking into
its own service tho four Regiments belonging to the Nawab
which had been paid and mounted by the Company during the
war. During the campaigns of 1781-2 the commandants of
cavalry had been : 1st Regiment, Captain (afterwards Major-
General) John Pater, Nawab's service ; 2nd, Captain Edward
Jourdan, Company's service ; 3rd, Captain (afterwards Major*
General) J. D. Stevonson (see No. 1261), Nawab's service; 4th j
Captain John Macalister, Company's service. Colonel Cosby
stood posted to the 1st Regiment and commanded tho whole
(seeNos. 815 and 1235),
* Now called Anil Road.
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Sorial Date. Name. Inscription,
number. ^
(1) (2) (3) (4)
CEMETERY WITHIN THE FORT, ARNEE — cont.
1132 19th Juno Thomas Munro A tribute of friendship to the memory of Lieut. Thomas
1789. Mcjnro, late of the 4th European Battalion, who died at
Arnee on the — day of June 1789, aged 28 years.
It is singular that there should have been at ono time two subalterns
in the Madras Army, named Thomas Munro. The famous Sir
Thomas Munro, born May 27th, 1761, was of the same age as
the officer who lies hero and was himself present at the battle of
Arnee, June 2nd, 1782. He had landed at Madras, January 15th,
1780, after working his way out as an ordinary seaman on
board the Walpole. Next year he commenced his military career
under Coote. A memorandum of his services written by him-
self is among his papers and will be found in the appendix to
liradshaw's 44 Life of Munro." He was quartered successively at
Madura, Tan j ore, Fort St. George, Kasimkota near Vizagapatam
and Vollore.
Thomas Munro Senior (Sir T. Munro) was cadot in 1778, Ensign
20th May 1779, Lieut. 11th February 1786. Thomas Munro
Junior was cadet in 1779, Ensign 23 August, 1780 and Lieut.
April 17, 1786.
1133 5th Sept. Theodore Ivey Here lios interred the body of T. I. Tanner, Esq., aged 42
1790. Tanner. years, who departed this life the 5th September 1790.
A civil servant, and at the time of his death Paymaster to the Army.
He marriod Miss Frances Mary Dormond, Juno 27th, 1778, and
was probably father of No. 2689. At Calcutta, on September 17,
1766 Captain Thos. Ivey married Elizabeth Porter, widow.
Edward Tanner (Artillery), Lieutenant Fireworker 4th January
1768, commanding 1st Battalion Artillery, 1786, Lieut.-Col. April
17, 1786, died 1789.
John A Tanner (Artillery), Lieut. Fireworker 20th March 1781,
Lieut. June 2, 1783, Captain March 18, 1791, Major April 4, 1804,
Lieut.-Col. Soptombor 21, 1804, died July 3, 1807.
1134 16th Dec. Thos. Becket (Mr. Thomas Becket, Assistant Surgeon, died at Arnee, 16
1790. December 1790.)
1135 23rd Dec. Henry Hebvby This monument, sacred to the memory of Colonel Henry
1798. Aston. Hervey Aston, is erected by the Officers of His Majesty's
12th Regiment of Foot, as a lasting testimony of the Honor
and Respect in which they held his character when alive.
He died in the command of the Regiment at Arnee, in the
37th year of his age.
Lamented shade ! pupil of spotless truth,
First in the ranks of honor's ardent youth,
Thy generous soul, magnanimous in death,
Stamps on our hearts who caught thy latest breath
Our country's loss. But while we mourn the doom
That sinks untimely Aston to the tomb
The worth to which we consecrate this grave
Shall waft thy spirit to the good and brave.
Colonel Aston is said to have been a noted duellist, and an unerring
shot. Mortally wounded in this, his last duel, he is said to have
fired in the air, exclaiming u my last act shall not be one of
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CEMETERY WITHIN THE FORT, ARNEE — cont.
revenge/' and it is to this circumstance that the words magnani-
mous in death " in the above inscription allude. A member of the
family states that another Hervey Aston, brother of the above,
distinguished himself as a duellist during the occupation of Paris
(1815) when the French fire eators were continually picking quarrels
with the officers of the allied Armies. (Mr. LeFanu's note). The
Asiatic Annual Register adds that the deceased was " a man well
known in the first circles of fashion in England and the friend and
companion of the Princo of Wales, to whom he had been recom-
mended by the generosity of his heart, no less than by the elegance
and urbanity of his manners." From tho Memoirs of Captain
George Elers of the 12th Foot, we loam that Major Allan, tho
Paymaster, was Aston's antagonist. 41 He never held up his head
afterwards and died in leas than three months of a raging fever."
Major Picton, a brothor of Sir Thomas Picton, the Waterloo hero,
had " called out " Aston on the previous day. His pistol miss 'd
fire and the Colonel fired in the air. Both Majors wore tried by
Court-martial and admonished.
" Tho Duke talked to me a good deal in the evening about the Aston
family : said ho know Horvey Aston very well in India, who was
killed in a duel which made way for him to take the command
in tho campaigns. He believed indeed he was himself godfather
to Aston now at Madrid and that he was called Arthur after
him" (Keijher's Journal II, 381). Cf. Blakiston's 12 years' Military
Adventuro, I. 335 : " He had seen a good deal of the world before
he came out to India, had been a great fox hunter, a patron of the
fancy, and a loading member in the sporting circles." Ho had a
most inveterate habit of quizzing which involved him in many
personal encounters whereby he obtained the reputation of a
professed duellist.
1 J 30 July Do-Nald D. Macallum. A tribute to the memory of Lieutenant Donald D. Macallum
1799. of His Majesty's Scotch Brigade, who died at Arnee, July
1799, aged 22 years.
The inscription is cut in mortar and is almost illogible. Cf. Asiatic
Annual Kogistor for July 1800 — At Madras Lieut. Macbeth
Scotch Brigade a brave diligent and skilful officer; At Seringa-
patam Lieut. Cotos Scotch Brigade ; At Arnoe, Lieut. Macallum
of the same corps.
Here lieth the body of Jeromana Smaasen, the wife of John
Smaasen, who departed this life in the 48th year of her age.
An affectionate wife and tender mother who has left a family
ever to regret the loss of her.
John Smaasen was Assistant Surgeon to the Regiment de Meuron
who wero quartered at Arnee after taking part in tho *iege of
Seringapatam. Colonel Pierre Frederick de Meuron was in
command, with two Lieutenant-Colonels. J # I\ de Meuron BulJot
(No. 260) and Henry David de Meuron (see No. 9(12).
1138 5th Aug. Thomas Wood Sacred to the memory of Captain Thomas Wood, who departed
1800. this life at Arnee. August 5th A.D. 1800. A.E.S. 29.
He was in the Engineers. He joinod the Army as Cadet in J 790,
waa Lieut. May 25, 1792, Brevet Captain on June 1, 1796. He
married at Arnee May 4, 1796 Mary Nixon born 1/5 Jan. 1780
3rd daughter of Sir Eccles Nixon. He was younger brother of
Sir Mark Wood. Bart, of Galton Park, Surray and Admiral
Sir James Atholl Wood Kt. K. C. B. and Major-Genl. Sir George
Wood K.C.B.
1137 15th Dec. Jekomana Smaasen.
1799.
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Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
CEMETERY WITHIN THE FORT, ARNEE — cont.
1139 21st Mar. Minerva Waters . . Sacred to tho memory of Minerva, wifo of Lieutenant
J 815. R. Waters, who died 21st March 1815, aged 17 years.
She was a Danish iady, the youngest daughter of Colonel Muhldorflf
of Tranquobar, married October, 26th, 1813. Her husband died
at Sankaridroog, Juno 16th, 1820, aged 28 years (see Nos. 2368
and 2435).
1140 April John Boyce (John Boyce, Esq., Lieut, in the 41st Reg t. of Foot, died at
1828. Arnee, April 1828.)
1141 23rd Doe. Robert Taggart . . Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant Robert Taggart, Quarter-
1828. Master of H.M.'s 13th Light Dragoons, who died at Arnee on
the 23rd Deer. 1828, aged 30 years.
On July 13, 1 803 Lieut. John Taggart of the M. E. K. died on board
the Matilda Captain Shoon, as weighing anchor from Malacca
for Madras.
1142 22nd May Alexander Glen . . [Captain Alexander Glen, H.M. 41st or Welsh Rogimont].
1836.
Nophew of Joseph Hume. M.P. The tomb has disappeared.
ARNEE FORT.
1143 29th Sept. Robert Kelly .. Sacred to the memory of Colonel Robert Kelly, who departed
1790. this life in tho vicinity of Arnoo, September 29th, A.D. 1790,
aet. 52. This monument was erected by Lieut. -Col. Urban
Vigors, as a mark of respect for a gallant soldier.
There is an Elegy of 16 linos ending
" Then deeds of old shall stimulate the brave
And Kelly shall be useful in the Grave "
P.W.
He was " in Chief Command of the Western Army " 4th Regiment
European Infantry.
This is an imposing masonry column, about 65 feet high, situated
in the old parade ground in the Fort. It is in good order and the
inscription is quite clear. Tho ball on the top of the column
fell off some years ago. Colonol Kelly was killed in a duol in a
field near Arnee by Lt.-Col. Vigors. Tradition has it that,
on Colonol Kelly's appointment to command, Colonel Vigors
spoke of him as an 41 old woman '' to his wife, who repeated the
remark to Mrs. Kelly, who insisted upon Colonel Kolly obtaining
" satisfaction," with the above result. The story has been so
handed down, and in those days, it was nothing extraordinary
that life should be lost for such a trifle. (Mr. LeFanu's note.)
Urquhart euphemistically says " He died most suddenly in camp
at Arnee.' ' His relict Miriam died at an advanced age at St.
Thomas' Mount, May 28th, 1837, and her tomb was erected by
her only surviving child Myra Taynton, widow of tho late Lieute-
nant-Colonel John Taynton of the Madras Establishment. In
Wilson's " History of tho Madras Army " (ii. 199) Colonel Kelly
is described as ** an able and distinguished officer who had seen
much service. When a captain he commanded the 9th battalion,
which is still known by his name." In 1775, at Palamcottah, he
tried his nativo commandant for mutiny and blew him from a gun.
At the time of his death he was in command of the centre army of
the force then being gathered to oppose Tippoo. The 21st
battalion, which formed part of the contro army, was commandod
by Captain (not then Colonel) Urban Vigors. This officer took a
gallant part in the siege of Seringapatam and afterwards com.
raanded the Hyderabad Subsidiary Force.
' In the meanwhile the Carnatic Army under the command of Colonel
Maxwell — for Kelly died the day after he received the account of
the attack on Colonel Floyd — entered the Baramahal on the
24th of October Munro : Gleig Vol. I — page 102.
Urban Vigors died April 10th, 1815 in England aged 68 and has a
monument in Marylebone.
Colonel Bartholomew Vigors (Ensign 15 September 1770 and Major
18th March 1794) was on leave to Europe from 16th December
1 786 — no time specified — on half pay. Cashiered ; struck off.
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number.
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WANDIWASH.
Mr. LoFauu writes as follows " This Fort, immortalised by the unflinching valour of the illustrious, but neglected, Flint,
contains the graves of many bravo officers and men. The only tomb now traceable is a modest masonry construction, on the
southern glacis of the Fort, east of the road leading to the gateway. Its tenant has not boon identified. The nearest conjecture
is that it shelters the remains of Major Breroton, mentioned below. There were, until some few year* back, two small masonry
tombs of European officers, lying close beside each other in a field, inside the Fort, to the right hand side after entering the
gateway. They were, roughly speaking, about* 80 yards north of the southern, and 50 yards west of the eastern rampart.
Unfortunately, the site was ploughed over in recent years, a vandalism which did not occur in or after November 1 887. Although
diligent search was made in and near the spot indicated, no trace of these graves could be found, so well had the destroyer
done his work. According to the voracious Orrne, Lieutenants Minns and La tour were killed, in an unsuccessful attack on the
Fort by the Hritixh, in 1759. On this occasion 70 rank and file also perished. Lieutenant Mamville and two Captains wero
killed in September 1759. The Fort was captured by the British in November 1759, and, on this occasion. Lieutenant Robert
Campbell of the Artillery perished. Major Brereton fell in an unsuccessful attack made on the Fort, by the French, in January
17fi0. He was killed close to a retrenchment near a tank. On the same occasion three French Officers wero killed. Tho
Chevalier Poete, Knight of Malta, is specially mentioned as having fallen in January I7b0. "
CEMETERY AT 0HITTOOK *
1144 21st Apr. Mrs. Whitltk .. (Mrs. Wiiituk relict of tho late Major Whitlio of the 1 9th Kegi-
1809. ment Native Infantry died at Chittoor on 21st April 1809)
(Grave not known).
Captain William Whitlio married Kose D'Erff on July 17, 1797 at
Pondicherry.
1145 4th April Benjamin Bran fill Benjamin Branfill Skinner, infant son of Samuel Judge
1S1 1 . Skinner. of the Provincial Court and Mary Skinner, aged 1 month and
10 days.
Tomb in the Hospital compound, old Fort. Samuel Skinner*
C.S., 1701 to 1820, married a Miss lloutledge at Chittoor, Juno
13th, 1808. He died 21 May 1854. (leorge Head, C. S. (1790—
1810, died Sep. 25, 1825) married Miss Eliza Koutledge,
April 18, 1790. Honjamin Hranfill, the child's godfather, was in
the Civil Service from 1781 to 1804. He married Miss Mary
Whittall, August 19, 1789 (see Nos. 190 and 1807). Benjamin
Branfill was the second son of Champion Branfill (born 24 April,
1712, died 20 April 1770, married December 1700 Elizabeth
eldest daughter of Robert .lames Esq.). Benjamin was born
25 May 1705 at Westminster Hall, Kssex ; appointed in 1780
to the M.C.S., died at Walthamstow without surviving issue
July 18, 1841. His mother Mrs. Branfill married again 15th Sept.
1772, Matthew Howland Patrick, Esq., who died without issue
in February 1777. Mrs. Patrick died at Putney 10 November
1813. Tho second daughter of Champion Branfill, Charlotte,
married John Harrison, of Chigwall Row County Kssex, Director
wf the E.I. Co. & of the Bank of Knglond. [He was born 1721
and died 5 August 1794 at Charterhouse Square. She wan
born 21 June 1724 (the 10th child); died 2Uh August 1797.]
1146 25th Nov. Willtam Craig .. William Craig, aged 29 years.
1810.
1147 13th April Sar\u Roberts Sarah Coombes, wife of Charles Roberts, Esq., aged 25
1819. years.
A very large handsome tomb covered by a masonry canopy and
surrounded by a wall 30 feet .square. Mr. Roberts was in tho
Civil Service from 1807 to 1838 and died in London, July 30th f
1850. He married at Chittoor July 9, 1811 Sarah Coomhes
Paul. Their eldest daughter Elizabeth Sarah married, February
26th 1835, T. Onslow, C.S. (No. 2294), third son of Sir Henry
Onslow, Bart. (See also No. 945). Their youngest daughter
was born on 15 August 1818 at Chittoor (Asiatic Journal,
February 1819).
1148 26th Nov. John Way Long John Way Long, late 3rd Judge of the Provincial Court,
lg21. Central Division.
Mr. Long was in 1790 writer on' the Bencoolen establishment, but
transferred to Madras. His wife Matilda died at Muglatore, May
7th, 1817, aged 24, and is buriod at Masulipatam.
* Now in the Chittoor district.
vol. n — 3
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number.
<»)
Date.
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Name.
(3)
Inscription.
1149
19th June
1822.
Arthur
BU8HBY.
CEMETERY AT CHITTOOR— cont.
Balfour Ensign Arthur Balfour Bushby, 2nd Battn. 11th N.I.,
aged 19 years.
Son of William Bushby, H.E.I.C.S. He joined the army aa Cadet
in 1820 and was made Ensign on February 13, 1821. Four of his
brothers were civilians : Charles Maitland and Henry Turner,
Madras ; William John, Bombay ; and George Alexander, Bengal,
who died Resident of Hyderabad, December 30th, 1856.
1150
1151
29th Mar.
1825.
19th Nov.
1823 and
9th Mar.
1828
T. E. Gibbon
Mbs. Waters
JJfi> 22nd Feb.
1828.
Joseph Dacrk
Thomas Edward Gibbon, aged 2 years and 5 months (son of
Richard Gibbon, Esq., Surgeon).
Richard Gibbon died at Cheltenham, August 1835.
A large octagonal mausoleum, with an iron door, contains two
tombs. It is locally known as the Meeting of the Waters, and
tradition has it that these are the graves of the first and second
wives of Mr. Waters, J udge at Chittoor. The door being secured
by three heavy locks, it is not possible to see if the graves bear
inscriptions. Popular belief amongst the natives adds that much
valuable jewellery was buried with these ladies, and that more
than one attempt was made to rifle their tombs. The two coffins
are said not to be lying on the ground, but to hang suspended by
chains from the roof. Mr. George Jenkin Waters was Judge
of Chittoor from 1823 to 1832 and was afterwards Third Judge
of the Provincial Court. He may justly be called the Blue Beard
of the Civil Service, for he had no less than six wives. The first
died November 19th, 1823, name unknown ; the second, Eliza, the
daughter of W. Cooke, Collector of Chittoor, whom he married on
January 7, 1825 died March 9th, 1828 ; the third, Maria Frances,
the 3rd daughter of Conway Dobba Barrister of Dublin, whom
G. J. Waters married on 30th June 1831, died October 28th, 1831 ;
the fourth, Harriet Eliza Cooke, only daughter of James
Cooke, Assistant Surgeon, Madras Medical Establishment, he
married at Rajahmundry on July 17th, 1833, died October 13th,
1833, at Masulipatam (See No. 1855) ; the fifth, Clara
Robina Alves died March 30th, 1857 ; the sixth, a Miss Rob.
son, he married at Brighton, December 6th, 1871\ Mr. Waters,
who must have been born about 1792, died February 12th, 1882
at Portishead. He was in the Civil Service from 1808 to 1847.
In Cleocian Church, Somerset , the first " table " tomb near the gate
bears the inscription (partly erased) to Clara Robina Alvos, for
20 years the beloved wife of George J. Waters of the Madras Civil
Service who died of rapid consumption on the 30th March 1857.
Mrs. Cooke, the wife of William Cooke. Esq., Collector of Sea Cus-
toms departed this life on Monday the 22nd July 1811. Her
name was Amelia.
J. Dacre, Esquire, of Kirklenton Hall, Cumberland, and 3rd
Judge of the Provincial Court of Appeal and Circuit in the
Centre Division, aged about 45 years.
Mr. Dacre's House is still well known in Chittoor. There is an
account of him in a book on British India by tho Rev. W. M.
Campbell (1839), C. P. Brown's copy of which is in the Indian
Institute, Oxford. Judge Dacre married a native woman. He
joined the Civil Service as writer in 1802.
1153 1st June Robert Jennings »• Reverend Robert Jennings, Missionary at Chittoor from the
1831. London Missionary Society, aged 34 years. This monu-
ment is erected by the European Society at Chittoor, among
whom he laboured. His piety, worth and talents need no
memorial to immediate survivors ; but the coming age may
regard with interest the graves of the earlier evangelists in
this, at present, heathen land.
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NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT — cant.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
CEMETERY AT CHITTOOR— cont.
1154 3rd Sept. James Polhill Jambs Polhill Chambers of the Bombay Civil Service, aged
1831. Chambers. 22 years, born March 31st 1809.
Assistant Collector of Ahmedabad.
1166 29th Nov. Thomas Gahagan .. Thomas G ah ag an, aged 48 years.
1833.
Mr. Gahagan born 1785 entered the service in 1804, and was Second
Judge of the Centre Provincial Court at the time of his death.
His daughter Fanny married in 1833 G.[A. Harris, C.S., son of
Hon. M. T. Harris, k C.S. t and grandson of the first Lord Harris.
Thomas and Frederick Gahagan, C.S. (No. 2228), were son* of
Terence Gahagan (see Nos. 388 and 1061).
One Charles Gahagan, Captain Lieutenant of the H.C. Madras Foot
Artillery died at Ellichpoor on 14th May 1817. (Asiatic Journal,
November 1817.)
1150 11th July Archibald Macnair. Captain Archibald Macnair, late of the 15th Regiment, aged
1838. 33 years.
1157 17th Oot. John Stedman Cotton S. M. Beneath this stone repose the mortal remains of John
1843. Stedman Cotton, Esq., Captain in the VII Regiment, Madras
Light Cavalry, who died at Chittore on the 17th October
1843, aged 31 years.
Son of Mr. John Cotton (1783 — 1860), long Collector of Tanjore,
He was a celebrated sportsman and published in 1841 the well-
known " Tale of a Tiger " illustrated by himself. He is also
credited with designing the illustrations to F. W. N. Bayley's
" New Tale of a Tub,*' but disclaimed them in a remarkable
preface to his ** Tale of a Tiger/' " The first plate in Bayley's
book with my name in the corner, I must disclaim in toto
The others have a certain resemblance, but still the actual designs
are no more mine than they are yours. I have no idea of being
presented with a niche small or great in the temple of fame,
and I could only compare the benevolent assistance of Messrs
Aubrey, Colnaghi, and Puckle to the vigorous but undesired
aid I once received from two stalwart but breechless Arabs in
ascending the mausoleum of old Cheops. Fiat justitia is my
motto, and I only desire that every tub may stand on its own
bottom. Arcot, June 7th 1841 ." The Tale of a Tiger was trans-
lated into French in 1852 by the abbe de Savigny. There is a
*ino monument by Weekes in Ranipet Church to Cotton's
memory. It bears a portrait medallion of the deceased, whose
mother was Sophia Charlotte Stedman, daughter of Lieu tenant -
Colonel John Gabriel Stedman, 1744 — 1797 (see No. 414). Mr.
John Cotton's son, grandson, and great grandson all entered the
Indian Civil Servioe ; and his father Joseph Cotton (1745
1825) was a Direotor of the E.I.C. from 1795 to 1823 (see
No. 1807).
Captain Steadman in his narrative of a f> years Expedition against
the revolted negroes of Samiam relates that on waking about 4
o'clock one morning in his hammock he was extremely alarmed
at finding himself weltering in congealed blood and without feeling
any pain whatever. " The mystery was", continues Captain
Steadman, 44 that I had been bitten by the Vampyre or Spectre
of Guiana which is also called the Flying Dog of New Spain and by
the Spaniards, Penovolador. This is no other than a bat of
monstrous size, that sucks the blood from men and cattle while
they are fast asleep, even sometimes till they die ; and as the
manner in which they proceed is truly wonderful I shall endeavour
to give a distinct account of it." Percy Anecdotes (T. Boys
Ludgate Hill 1821. Anecdotes of Instinct, page 71).
Letters to the Government of Madras relative to the disturbances
in Kanara in April 1837 by Francis Carnac Brown of Telli-
cherry (Smith Elder &co., 1838) : *« The conduct of the [youngj
officer, Lieut. Cotton of the Madras Cavalry, cannot be too gene-
rally known. He was a passenger on the Lamont in bad health,
going from Bombay to Madras. No sooner did he hear that some
vol. n — 3a
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NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT— cent.
number. Date * Name. Inscription.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
CEMETERY AT CHITT00R - -cord.
of his comrades on shore were in danger than he insisted on
instantly joining and remaining with them, although told that he
would share their hopeless fate. He it was who on landing, if 1
am rightly informed, led a party of sepoys to the attack of the
insurgents " (p. 114).
Calcutta Cathedral. —
Sacred to the memory of Lieut. Col. Count Robert Adrian Sted-
man C. J*. Bengal Light Cavalry who diod at Sea botween
Calcutta and Madras on board the steamer Haddington
going to Kngland at 3 on the morning of 29th April 1849, aged
f)9 years ($ months and 9 days, having served in the Bengal
Light Cavalry 41 years I month. ••Oh God that the world is not
an abiding place that our life is but a vapour, Man is like a thing
of nought. Thy life fadod away like a shadow." This tablet is
erocted by his widow. J. Doclajean & Co., Chunar.
i 1 58 isr, Sept. Edmund Charles Edmund Charles Lovell, Esq., late Civil and Sessions Judge,
1 85 1 . Lovell . Chi ttoor , a get! 45 yea rs .
lie joined the Civil Service as writer in 1827.
RAN1PET CEMETERY.
Kanipet means QueenV town. It was built about 1771 by Sudatulla Khan in honour of the youthful widow of Desing, Kajah of
Gingee, who committed suttee upon hor husband's grave. A favourite Telugu ballad describes how Desing Kajah refused to
pay tribute to tho Nabob and girt with a magic sword sallied out to fight him near Ginger. He at first defeated the Maho-
medan troops, but tho powers of his weapon wore only to last for a short timo and when the Nabob resumed the contest,
Desing, in spito of the utmost gallantry, w T as overcome and slain. Out of respect for his valour and his wife's devotion, the
Nabob founded a new village opposite to Arcot and named it Iianipet. It was for many years a large Cavalry Cantonment.
1159 4th Nov. CHARLES INGLIS .. Chaklks Tnglis, one of the Attornies of the Honorable the Mayors
17$C) Court in Madras died at the Cavalry Cantonment near Arcot on
the 4th of November 17S9: the same evening his remains were
attended to the grave by all the officers of the cantonment, as
the last friendly tribute due to a worthy mnn.''
110U
10th Doc. John Grant
1791.
1101
30th Sept.
1793.
30th Dec.
1796.
Thomas Huckerby
William Augustus:
Younge.
Lieut. John Grakt Adjutant of the 2nd Regiment Native
Cavalry, Mged 27 years died at Arcot in the prime of life
after a short illness in the month of December 1791.
A quaintly carved slab with letters in relief which are quite legible.
The older tombs all lie together on the ground in the far corner of
the cemetery.
He joined the Cavalry as cadet in 17N2 and was Lieut, on June
29, 1785. Hin executor was Lieut. Allen Grant (No. 205), his
brother.
Here lieth tho body of Thomas Huckerby, Esq., late Surgeon
to the 4th Regiment of His Majesty's Cavalry, who departed
this life 30th September 1793, aged 23 years, esteemed and
lamented by his brother officers.
He was Assistant Surgeon on 29th .June 1791.
This monument is erected by the officers of the 4th Regiment
Cavalry as a lasting tribute of the sense they entertained of
the merits of their late excellent and beloved commandant,
Lieut.-Colonel William A. Younge, who departed this life
on 30th December 1796, anno aetatis 42.
He was Commander of Co/a 4th Cavalry known as Younge's
Regiment.
Lt.-Col. William Augustus Younge married Miss Mary Davidson
on March 27, 1796. XShe was baptized on January 6, 1776.)
He became Lieut, on April, 5, ) ?73 and was Lieut.- Col. on Decern-
ber 18, 1794.
21
Se-i
number
Onto.
1163 14th June
1798.
J 164 23rd July
1798.
1165 12th May
1800.
1166 25th Oct,
1805.
1167 19th Feb.
1807.
1168 April 1807.
1169 17th Aug.
1808.
1170 27th Nov.
1808.
1171 13th July
1811.
1172 4th Aug.
1811.
NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT — cant.
Name. Inscription.
(3) (4)
RANIPET CEMETERY — cont.
Samuel Thompson
Alexander Macpher-
son.
Samuel Thompson, late Quarter-master, 25th Light Dragoons,
aged 44 years, 24 of which were devoted to the service of his
King and country. In caelo quics.
u At Arcot, Lieutenant Colonel A. Maepherson, Commandant of
Amboor. He had been upwards of 22 years in the Hon. Com.
pany's Service. He was particularly distinguished for his facility
in acquiring the country languages and for the fluency with
which he spoke them. He was an able and zealous officer, a plea-
sant companion and a truly amiable man."
Culonel Alexander MacphoiHon Commanding Amboor was succeeded
by Lioutonant Colonel George Wahab. " Tho Secretary reports
to tho Board the death of Lieutenant Colonol Alexander Maephor-
son of the 1st Battalion Hth Regiment Native Infantry at Arcot
on the 23rd instant." — Military Consultations dated 31st July
1798.
He joined tho Army as cadet in 1770; was Knsign January 21,
1 772 ; Lieutenant August 20, 1777 ; Captain November 2, 1 783,
Major March 1704 and Lieutenant-Colonel June 1, 1796.
Lieutenant James Ballmer. 6th Light Cavalry, aged 22 years.
He joined the Cavalry as cadet in 1708 and was Lieut, on May 8,
1800.
David Dundas Hamil- Cornet D. D. Hamilton, 5th Regiment Cavalry, aged 21 years.
ton .
Madras Almanac 1S<m; jrivi s 28th Oct. 1S0."» as the date of his death.
Elizabeth Adams . . Elizabeth, wife of Lieutenant Colonel G. P. Adams, H.M. 25th
Dragoons, aged 28 years.
She died at Arcot.
James Ballmer
Davis
William Sankey
Charles Tprner
Edward Hervey
Hutchinson.
Jean Brigos
1173 24th May
1814.
1174 18th June
1814.
P. H. Byrne
G. W. J.Erskinj
(At Arcot Lt. Davis, H.M. 25th L.D. died in April 1807.)
Wjlliam Sankey, Private, 22nd Dragoons, aged 35 years-
Erected by Quarter-master Lawson for the good behaviour
of the deceased.
Charles Turner, late Lieutenant and Adjutant, 7th Regt..,
N. Cavalry, aged 23 years.
He was cadet in 1800 and Lieut, on May 1, 1804.
Edward Hervey Hutchinson, Paymaster, H.M. 22nd Dra-
goons, aged 42 years. Eroctod by his brother Lieut.
G. Hutchinson, N.l.
George Hutchinson was cadet in 1805 and \\ as Major on No\. 10,
1830.
Jean Brigos, wife of Gilbert Briggs, Surgeon, 1st Regiment
N. Cavalry, aged 23 years.
Sho waa the socond daughter of Charles Pasley of London, mer-
chant, who was born Fob. 25, 1740 and married, Feb . 21,
1780, Jane, daughter of John Carlyle Keq.
Her father's brother CJilbert Pasley was Surgeon -General at Madras,
where he married Miss Hannah Dashwood Sept. tt, 1778 and
died September 23rd, 1781 (see No. M l). Mrs. Hannah Pasley
remarried Mr. Thomas Elliot Ogilvio May 27, 1782. Gilbert
I>riggs was originally a Military cadet in 1705 and rose to the
rank of Lieut, on November 29, 1707, but was struck off December
17th, 1709, and appointed Assistant Surgeon (see No. 2781).
He died November 4th, 1820.
Captain P. H. Byrne, 25th Dragoons, aged 47 years.
Sacred to the memory of G. W. J. Erskine, Lieutenant and
Quartermaster, IVth Regiment Light Cavalry, who departed
this life June 18th, 1814 Anno Aetat 32. This monument
was erected as a token of fraternal affection by Lieut. James
Erskine, IV Regt., Native Infantry.
James Erskine died November 12, 1819 at Bombaj'.
22
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT^conf.
Name. Inscription.
(3) (4)
KAN1PET CEMETERY — cont.
1175 23rd June Joseph Pbaokr
1815.
Sacred to the memory of Lieut. Joseph Prager, H.M.'s XXVth
Lt. Dns. who departed this life on the XXIII d . of June
MDCCCXV in the XL year of his life. As a token of respect
this tomb was erected by a female friend.
1176 10th Feb.
1819.
Louisa Lichioaray.
1177
1st Aug.
1819.
Peter McElroy.
Samuel Mansell
Holmes.
Miss Louisa Lichioaray, aged 25 years and 11 months. Her
death is an irreparable loss to him who now offers this last
tribute of respect to her memory. To him who fondly
looked forward to her as the only source of all his future
happiness in this world.
Invidious Grave ! How thou dost rend asunder
Whom love has knit and sympathy made one.
This quotation is from Blair \ 44 grave Passengers home Jan*
28, 1817 per Marchioness of Ely: Mrs. Syms, Mrs. Knowles, Mrs.
Beaumont, Misses Hope & L. Lichigaray.
Serjeant Peter McElroy, Trumpet-Major, 13th Light Dra-
goons, aged 35 years. He who sincerely regrets the loss of a
faithful comrade, as the last tribute of respect, erects this
tomb ; T. Bonnet, Serjeant-Saddler. Beneath this tomb
lies also interred Samuel Mansell Holmes, son of Captain
Samuel Holmes, late 13th Light Dragoons, who had rendered
his King and Country long and essential service, and whose
ideas the son had imbibed. He departed this life on August
1st, 1819, aged 16 years.
A brief account of the services of his more distinguished namesake^
Major-Genoral Sir George Holmes, who served mostly in the
Bombay Presidency and died at Cheltenham on 29th October
1816 is given in Asiatic Journal, February 1817.
1178 2nd Nov. Henry Stamford
1819. Blanckley.
Major Henry Stamford Blanckley, 13th Light Dragoons,
aged 34 years. Erected by his surviving brother officers.
26th July
1819.
Charles Brown
Blanckley.
Infant son Charles Brown Blanckley, aged 10 months and
a half.
Madras Almanac states that ho died 24th July at Arcot.
1179
8th Nov.
1819.
Arthur Handcock
Lieut. Arthur
23 years.
Handcock, 13th Light Dragoons, aged
Blanckley was drowned while boating on the Cauverypauk tank ;
Handcock died from the effects of the immersion. The two-
tombs are imposing fluted columns some 30 feet high. There is a
third column in the same enclosure, bearing no inscription. It is
said to be in memory of a lady who was drowned in the accident
reforred to above.
1180
2nd Mar.
1820.
John Potter
John Potter, aged 23 years, 4 months and 18 days.
" Christian friends give heed to my cry
Drop some tears as you pass by."
Son of David Potter (No. 1 186 ).
1181
26th May
1820.
Holled Coxb
Memorise sacrum Holledi Coxe ordinis sacerdotalis alumni qui
natus Oct. VI MDCCXCV obiit Maii XXVI MDCCCXX.
Juvenis etsi vitaa tarn en officiis perfunctus erat gravi erga
23
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT— wiU.
Name. Inscription.
(3)
RANIPET CEMETERY — cont.
1182 16th June
1820.
1183 4th April
1823.
Mark West
Edward B. Haring-
ton.
1184 15th Aug.
1824.
John Humffrbys
1185 26th Mar.
1827.
1186 30th Aug.
1833.
1187 6th June
1837.
Frances Selina
Grove.
David Potter
Sabina Starkey
1188 19th Jan.
1838.
Isabella Susanna
Cumberlege.
Deum pietate imbutus. Vix ad has oras appulsus animam
eheu prematuram expiravit. Hoc marmor wpposuere sui
doflentes.
Chaplain on the Bengal Establishment. Son of Richard, of Buckles*
bury, Berks,, Cler., Matric, Worcester, 24th July 1817, aged 21;
brother of Henry Octavius Coxe, Bodley's librarian. His son
Hollod Wallace Henry, born at Bangalore in 1820, Worcester
1839, aged 18, entered the H.K.I.C.S. alumni West 511. Edward
Coxe, M.C.S., died at Madras, 17th July 1818, aged 44. M. R.
Hollod Coxe, B.C.S., Judge of the High Court.
Major Mark West, 3rd Light Cavalry, aged 39 years.
E. B. Harington, Esq., Deus animam suam accipiat.
Cadet in the army and third son of W. Harington, C.S., Who died
at Madras, December 14th, 1821 (see 543).
Henry Hawes Harington of Madras married Martha, daughter of
Captain Robert Nicholl, 87th Regiment and was father of Sir
Henry Byng Harington, K.C.8.I, born 1808, entered Bengal
army 1824, was transferred to the Civil Service and became Lieute-
nant Governor of North West Provinces in 1863. He died at
70, Oxford Terrace, 7th October 1871.
Hie conduntur reliquiae Joannis Humffreys, de I.L.C., Juvenis
sine ostentatione ingenuus beneficus et probae indolis. Notis
omnibus flebilis. Obiit 15 Mens Aug*. A.D. MDCCCXXIV
anno aetatis XXV. Comites ejus de I.L.C. hoe monumentum
exegerunt.
I.L.C. stands for 1st Light Cavalry.
Frances * Selina, wife of Capt. Grove, 13th Light Dragoons,
aged 28 years, daughter of Colonel Gregory of Stivic Hall,
Warwickshire.
Colonel Francis Gregory of Styvechale near Coven t.rv married Fmnres
daughter of Andrew Grote of Blackheath.
David Potter, merchant of Arcot, who died of cholera, aged
66 years.
Sabina, wife of Lieutenant J. W. Cross Starkey, 1st Regiment,
N.T., aged 35 years and eldest daughter of Charles Mnllor,
Esq., who died in the public bungalow at Balchetty 's Choultry.
According to Graul, Balchotty Chattram is properly Pal Chetti
Chattram 44 Lodging house of the milk-merchant." Matthew
Hunter, Surgeon, died there on June 5th, 1813, but his tomb is
not in existonce.
Sabina was married at Trichendoor, 12th April 1833 by R. Eden.
Collector. J. W. C. Starkey joined the army as cadet in 1826.
was Lieut. October 17, 1834 and died as Captain at French
Rooks on June 25, 1847.
At Suez, on her voyage to England, Sophia Maria, wife o
Capt. J. W. C. Starkey, 1st. N. I. t died on Feb. 17, 1847. f
John Starkey, aged 26 years, head writer of the Provincial Court
died at Masulipatam, December 12, 1815. (Asiatic Journal,
August 1816.)
Isabella Susanna, wife of Captain Cumberlege, 7th Light
Cavalry, aged 34 years and 9 months. " Wife of Captain
Bulstrode Whitelocke Cumberlege, died at Arcot. Monument
was erected by her husband as a tribute of affection to
a sincere christian and the best of daughters, wives and
mothers."
B. W. Cumberlege joined the cavalry in 1820, was L eut. May 1,
1824 and Captain May 4, 183«.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
1189
30th Sop.
1840.
1190
23rd July
1876.
ROHEKT LANGLEY
HiGHMOOR.
Highmoor, 3rd Light
Wooherry. The monu-
William
Bevas.
NORTH ARCOT DISTRICT-cem/.
Name. Inscription.
(3) (4)
RANIPET CEMETERY -cont.
Lieut. Colonel Robert Langley
Cavalry, aged 49 yoars. Died at
ment was erected by his friends.
Ocheri is the next stage from Walajapet on the road to Madras.
Highmoor married, April 13th, 1826, Harriet, third daughter
of Herbert Compton, Advocate -General, afterwards Sir
Herbert Compton. He joined the Cavalry in 1807, was Lieut.
Sept. ], 1818. ( apt. May 1, 1824 and Major May 1, 1835.
George William George Bevan, aged 52 years.
This officer \\a^ riding with his daughter, when he took his foot
out of the stirrup to remove a thorn, and in doing so spurred
his horse, which started off at full ^peod across country, and
falling into a gravel pit, killod his rider.
1191
13 th June
1821.
George Heath
GANG AV ARAM. *
. . Lieutenant GkOrge Heath, Adjutant of the 2nd Battalion,
24th Regiment, aged 35 years.
He died in Camp near Venkattagherry Pettah. Ho joined the
army in 1S0G and was Lieut. Nov. 17, 1810.
♦ Now in the Chittoor District.
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SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT
FORT ST. DAVID, CUDDALORE,
On a lonely part of the Coromandel Coast, a little north of the town of Cuddalore, and within a quarter of a mile of the sea, the
passer-by will note a circle of low earthen mounds, with here and there a fragment of broken masonry crumbling half-hidden
under the rank herbage of an Indian climate. Under those earthworks may be seen a succession of casemates and
bomb-proof rooms, with small off-shoots probably intondod for powder-chambers. This is all that remains of Fort St. David,
a fortress which in 1746 was better fortified than any of its size in India and was for over five years (1746-1752) the seat
of the Government of Madras, during such time as the French held Fort St. George, and after. Now it is but a vestige
Keep and drawbridge have gone ; goats graze over the grassy mounds, and a stilly quietnoss dwells over the neatly-kept,
gardon of the Police Officer's bungalow, the only building within the Fort limits.
Before tho English obtained a foothold upon tho Coromandol Coast, a rich Hindu merchant fixed upon this spot for the erection
of his warehouses. He threw up earthworks and mounted some cannon thereon to protect himself from the marauding
Mahrattas. Later on, at the end of the seventeenth century, English merchants askod the reigning Rajah for a domicile
in Cuddalore, and were given the Fort which the original owner had vacated some years previously. For tho sum demanded
in return they wore to receive the ruined warehouses and fortifications and as much land as could be covered by 44 random "
cannon balls fired from the ramparts. The chief gunner, with his guns of longest range, was sent down from Fort St.
George ; the shots wero marked down, and the boundary lino drawn. The villages thus enclosed are to this day known
as the " caimonball villagos."
Owing to its proximity to the Kronen territory, Fort St. David was particularly liable to attacks, and the garrison must have
been kept in a state of tension during the middle of tho eighteenth century when Franco and England were trying, with
tho assistance of the Native Chiefs, which could drive tho other out of Hindustan. As giving a curious reminder of the
customs of thoso times, an account of a skirmish records the fact that during the retirement several English Officors were
taken prisoners owing to their lagging behind in thoir palanquins.
Roctangular in shape, with bastions at each of the comors, the Fort, though surrounded by a territory larger than that at
Madras, was small and cramped as to its inside area. An attack was organised against it at Pondichorry in 1746, a force of
J, 700 men, mostly Europeans, with six field pieces and as many mortars being told off for the expedition. The army arrived
within sight of the Fort, ^ho garrison of which consisted of two hundred Europeans and one hundred To passes, and some
skirmishing took place ; but on the approach of the Nawab of Arcot with a large force tho French retired procipitately back
to their own boundary. The following year another attack was made. Tho English garrison marched out with three field
pioces and a troop of horse, composed chiefly of Volunteers, to prevent the French from crossing tho river Pennar. Cannonad-
ing ensued, and the French won their way across, but retired again hastily to Pondichorry on the appearanco of an English
squadron in the ofliiig.
In April 1758, Lally, who had just arrived at Pondichorry, despatched a force of 1,000 Europeans and as many Sepoys under the
command of Count D'Estaign, against Fort St. David, following himsoif later with more troops. At this timo the Fort
had by many additions and improvements bocome anned at all points ; but the original defoct of want of space still
remained, tho inside area being only 140 feet from West to East, and 390 foet from North to South. The four bastions at
the angles each mounted twelve guns, and a faussobray with brick parapet wont round the curtains as well as the bastions.
The outworks consisted of a hornwork to the North, mounting thirty-four guns and two large ravelins, one to the East,
tho other on the West. Thoro was a wet ditch with brick scarp and counterscarp ; a broad covered-way excellontly
pallisaded, and the glacis itself was provided with well constructed minos. Tho rampart of tho hornwork had unfortunately
boon made too narrow to allow of the free recoil of the guns. The garrison consisted of 611) Europeans, of whom 286 were
effective, 83 pensioners, and 250 were seamen, the crews of two vessels which had been run ashore on the appearance of the
French squadron. There were, in addition, 1,600 Sepoys.
The French quickly set to work to throw up batteries and dig trenches, and fighting went on continuously till, by 30th of May,
the enemy had advancod thoir sap to within three hundred yards of tho glacis. They had now four batteries, mounting
twenty-one cannon and thirteen mortars, playing on the Fort, and such a heavy fire was kept up that tho English
sailors and even the Artillerymen at times were forced to quit their guns. At noon on 1st June the French squadron was
perceived working towards the roads, and by evening the enemy had carried on their tronches to the foot of the glacis
opposite to the salient angle of the north-east bastion, where they began to erect a battery. All tho ombrasures in the
Fort which commanded this spot were ruined, and their guns oither dismounted or withdrawn, so that, although the wet
ditch would still remain to be crossed tho enemy could soon make a lodgement in the covered way. Under these cir-
cumstances it was considered that a general assault could not be resisted, and that further fighting was usoless. A flag of
truce was despatched from the Fort, and after a short parley terms were made with Lally. At six o'clock in the evening
a company of French Grenadiers was admitted into the Fort, and the garrison marched with drums and colors to the foot
of the glacis, where they grounded their arms and surrendered as prisonors.
In compliance with instructions from France orders were immediately issued for all the fortifications to be razed to the ground ;
and how completely this work was carried out the present few vestiges of tho Fort show. The town and Fort of Cuddalore were
occupied for some time by the French ; but, though they retired into Pondicherry torritory later on, no attempt was ever made
by the English to rebuild or re-occupy Fort St. David.
" Fort St. David is now no more : all that is to be seen of it are desolate ruins, dismantled walls and dilapidated battlements.
The masonry of the works was blown up with gunpowder and the rubbish carried away in carts for the construction of roads
in the new town or elsewhere. The brick work must have been very strong for tho cement holds together with such
firmness that the shock of the powder does not separate the bricks " (Hervey : Ten yoars in India , Volume II, P. 229,
written in 1836). Cuddalore. " The Factory House is a chaste piece of architecture built by my relative Diamond Pitt
when this was the chief station of the British on the Coromandel Coast. It has a noble portico and had a terrace roof that
pleased monsieur Lally so much, that he carried it off to Pondicherry " (Lord Valentia, Feb. 3, 1804, who stayed in it with
the Resident Mr. Kinchant). Cuddalore is also described in 1836 by Captain Hervey in his Ten years in India, Volume II,
VOL. II— 4
26
SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT-^.
FORT ST. DAVID, CUDDALORE-ccmt.
page 218. " The houses are in the old style reminding me of those in Cochin." In the new town are still to be seen the
quarters and barracks of the Cadet Company, used partly as a post office and partly as Civil Treasury. There was a
famous banyan tree 4 miles from Fort St. David which was described and which is mentioned by Pennant.
Goanose Church at Cuddalore — the 2nd or 3rd of those built — dates from 1760.
A tragedy bearing the title of the " Widow of Malabar " written by Mariana Starke, whose father was Governor of Fort St
David was produced at Covent Garden Theatre on 5 May 1790. N fc & Q Nov., 30 1791, Page, 146.
H.B.I. Company Factory House, Cuddalore.
1707 Purchased from Mr. Haynes as residence for Deputy Governor, Fort St. David.
1711 Residence of Mr. Raworth, Deputy Governor.
1758 Destroyed completely by the French.
1761 Rebuilt.
1764 Commencement of enlargement to the present plan. Warehouse for cloth and merchandize on ground floor Also
Civil and Military Stores. Apartments for Chief in Council : Centre of Upper Storey. Apartments for 2nd and 3rd in
Council on either wing.
1769 Work stopped by Committee of Accounts, Madras, and Estimates for completion amounting to Rs. 10,050 refused by
Directors. Hence the tiled roof in South wing. Complete building plan dated 1782 now in Pondicherry Public Library.
1799 Occupied by Mr. Kinchant, Commercial Resident.
1802 Occupiod by Mr. Graham the first District Collector as residence and office.
1803 Mr. George Garrow, Collector.
1804 Feb. 3. Visited by Lord Valentia. Mr. Kinchant Resident at Cuddalore.
1805-6 Vacant — out of repair.
1807 Commercial Resident — Mr. Kinchant.
1820 Master Attendant and Sea Customs office.
1825 Valued at Rs. 87,680.
1831 District Court and Sea Customs office.
1834 Auxiliary Court and Jail.
1843 Civil and Sessions Court.
1866 Court removed to Manjakuppam.
1866-85 District Jail.
1885 Rented by Messrs. Parry & Co,
1886 Sold to Messrs. Parry & Co.
CEMETERY IN ERUSAPPA CHETTY STREET, CUDDALORE OLD TOWN.
(Urquhart gives the name aa Chcliar street.)
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) ( 4)
1192 31st Dec. Maby and Cathabime Here lyes the bodyes of Mrs. Maby and Catharine Davis the
1683 and Davis. former the honoured wife of Mr. John Davis, Chiefe of Cooda-
29th Nov. lore, the latter his most deare daughter, the former departed
1684 - this life 29th November 1684, in the 30th year of her age
the latter ye 31st December 1683, being 18 months old •
both which he hopes are happy and will be acceptable to
Christ Jesus on the last day, the former having led soe pious
a life and conversation as to be just in all her actions and dye
in charity with all men.
Mr '/^ had ^ reduC0d from the P° st of c Wef in Council
at Madapollam to that of second, and on his refusal to take up the
appointment had been removed from the service in 1680 but
was re-entertained on petitioning. He was sent to Cuddalore
as Chief in March 1683, with Mr. Ralph Ord (formerly schoolmaster
of St Mary s Charity School, Fort St. George) as second. Another
daughter, Katharine, aged 17 years, died August 24th 1681
(No T720) ° hi0f8hip ° f Mada P° llMn . «"i >s buried at Narsapore
1193 5th Oct. Vicesimtjs Gbtffith. Here Lies Interred the body of Vicesimus Gbiffith Merchant
1705. Youngest Son of Sib John Griffith, Kt., andlately Third in
Council in this place, in which Station he departed this life
the 6th of October 1705, in the 36th year of his .Age.
He was married at Madras, November Uth, 1698, to Grace Burton
* oasteei. u
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SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT-nco/rf.
Data. Name. Inscription.
(2) (3) (4)
CEMETERY IN ERUSAPPA CHETT\ STREET, CUDDALORE OLD TOWN — cont.
Serial
number.
(1)
1194 25th April
1708.
William Read
1195
25th April
1738 and
1st May
1749.
Thomas Cooke.
Grace Craddock.
1196
13th Sept.
1747.
Robert Misenor
1 1 97 27 th Aug. John H allyburton.
1748.
Here lyeth interr'd the body of William Read, Sometime
Ensign in the Right Hon'blo Compa's Garrison in Fort St.
George. By his last will be bequeathVl to the Protestant
Church in said Place what ostate he dyed possessed of. In
memory whereof the Church erected him this Monument.
He dyed ye 25th April 1708.
This may be compared with an inscription from Vizagapatam.
" Hero lyeth tho body of Jonathan Wilson, agod about 85 years,
who dyed in the year 1700, and having loft his ostate to the poor
belonging to the English Church in Fort St. George, hath this
monument of his charity and thoir gratitude.'*
Here lyeth ye body of Mr. Thomas Cooke who departed this
life the 25th day of April 1738, Agod 62 years. Also the Body
of Mrs. Grace Craddock, His Daughter, who departed this
life the 1st day of May 1749 in the 29th Year of her age.
This is ovidontly the Thomas Cooke, Cashkeeper at Fort St. George,
who was placed under arrest in 1721 when defalcations were
found by President Elwick on taking charge from Francis Hastings
in Octobor of that year. Thomas Cooke enterod the Civil service
in 1702, married Grace Bach (or Back) on Feb. 18, 1714
when 7th of Council and Land Customer.
Christopher Craddock, Jun. son of Capt. Christopher Craddock,
was a Supercargo. He married on May 24, 1736, Grace, daughter
of Thomas Cooke. Florentia Craddock, their daughter married
Alexander Wynch on Dec. 30, 1754 (Soo No. 65).
To the memory of Robert Misenor, a Sea Commd*. in the
service of the Hon'ble East India Company, who died at
Port St. David, September 13th 1747 in the 32nd Year of his
age and Whose Remains are deposited here.
Misonor is a most appropriate name for a " country captain." His
father John Misenor was in 1716 commander of the Prince**
Amelia, There is a still moro characteristic notice of another
ancient mariner rocorded by Asiaticus, but the tombstone is
no longer extant. " Captain Andrew Kerr, formerly of the
country service but hotter known by the name of the old
Commodore Ho was born at Fort St. David about tho year
1724, which place he first left in 1735 and went to England that
year. He was a sensible old man of plain and blunt manners,
strongly characteristic of Ins profession. In his will he directed
his body to be interred in a particular spot of his garden, without
coromony or service. His coffin had lain for many years in his
godown and was occasionally made use of as a liquor chest, or a
receptacle for horsegram. Ho diod at New Town, Cuddalore, in
tho month of March 1800, at the advanced age of -76 years."
Kerr was Captain of the Princess Royal Indiaman, which in
1779 brought out to Madras Charles Darke, grandfather of Lady
Peel. Darke's wife died at Trichinopoly, July 17th, 1797
(No. 2698).
Here Lies John H allyburton, An Honest Brave Man and A
Sincere Lover of his Country, who was basely Murdered on the
27th day of August 1748, by a Mutinous Sepoy at the siege of
Pondicherry where he served in quality of a Volunteer, Aged
31 years.
This is the famous siege commemorated in the " Plan de la Ville do
Pondicheri, dodid a la memoiro de Mr. Dupleix, chevalier de
l'Ordre du Roy, Commandeur de l'Ordre Royal et Militaire de
Saint Louis, qui la deffendit en 1748 contre l'Amiral Boscawen et
Vobligea apres 54 jours de tranchee ouverte de lever le siege,
qu'il avoit mis devant oette villo avoc 6000 soldats europeens.
vol. n— 4a
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SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT-«mf.
Serial D .te. Name. Inscription,
number. ...
(1) (2) (4)
CEMETERY IN ERUSAPPA CHETTY STREET, CUDDALORE OLD TOWN-cot*
20000 soldatH noire et 15 a 20 vaissoaux de guerre. II n'y avoit
alors dans la Place qu'environ 1,200 soldats europeens et 2,000
cipayes ou soldats noire." The memoirs of Runga Pillay, Dup-
leix's Dewan, describe the siege in daily detail, and sum up its
result in the remarkable words, 14 How can I picture the renown
that the" Governor has acquired ; it is like the sun that shines
everywhere." A French narrative of the events was published
at Brussels in 1766, undor the title " Relation du siege de Pondi-
chery."
He was mortally wounded by one of his own sepoys, whom he had
reprimanded. Cf. John Hallyburton's Journal (in Orme'a rasa.)
of the siege of Madras.
Hallyburton's will is to be found in the India Office and bears date
August 4th, 1748: *' I, John Hally burton, late of Madras,
but at this present of Fort St. David, being in Health of Body
and Mind do in case of my death make this my last Will and
Testament, hereby revoking all former Wills by me made. Im-
primis 1 give and bequeath the sum of soventy pounds to my
Moor servant Allie Rizzaboag and to my Christian servant
Thomas Morse all my Linnen and wearing apparell of what kind
soever. To Mr. Joseph Fowke, Capt. John Holland, Capt.
Rodolphus de Gingins, Lieut. Joseph Dalton, Lieut. George
Gardner, Mr. Andrew Munro and Mr. William Belsches each ten
pounds sterling for mourning." A Mr. David Haliburton, C.S.,
gave valuable information about Clive and Indian affairs to Sir
John Malcolm, when he was writing Clive's memoirs. It was at
Benches houso that the Rev. Francis Fordyce, Military Chaplain
of Cuddalore, insulted Lieutenant Clive in Dalton's hearing, and
was caned by Clive publicly in the street. Charles Floyer,
Governor of Fort St. David, instituted an enquiry on March
3rd, 1749, which suspended Fordyce and recorded 44 lest the same
(i.o-*, tho assault) should be to Mr. Clive's prejudice, wo think it
not improper to assure you that he is generally esteemed a very
quiet person and no ways guilty of disturbances." (Memoir of
Capt. Dalton 1886, pp. 57—64). Browning has worked up this
and another incident of Clive's factor-days into his poem " Clive "
(Dramatic Idylls 1880, second series) where his hero is described
as a *' desk-drudge, slaving at St. David's."
1198 18th Oot. Mary Floyer . . Hero lyeth the Body of Mrs. Mary Ffloyer, lately the Wife
1748 " of the Hon'ble Charles Floyer, Esq., President and Governor
of this Place. She departed this life in Childbed, on the
18th day of October 1748 Aged 29 years 4 months and 26
days.
On April 14th, 1747, Charles Floyer succeeded John Hinde as
Governor of Fort St. David, which was the chief English settle-
ment during the occupation of Madras by tho French from Octo-
ber 1746 to August 1749 and continued to be the 'seat of Govern-
ment till April 5th, 1752. Floyer and Hoet were dismissed the
service for gambling, July 6th, 1750. Tho well-known incidont
in Clive's life when he refused to pay money lost at the card table
to players, who wero proved to havo cheated, occurred at Fort
St. David. Clive was Deputy Governor of Fort St. David for
two months in 1756 and hold that appointment at the time he
fought the battle of Plassey. Mr. Alexander Wynch, who was
acting for him, surrendered the Fort to the French on June 2nd,
1758, so that Clive was its last substantial Deputy Governor, the
local officers after 1761 being styled chiefs of Cuddaloro. In the
annual list of covenanted civil servants sent to the Court of
Directors in 1757 appears the name of Colonel Robert Clive as
4 * Deputy Governor of Fort St. David, at present commander of
the troops in Bengal."
Charles Floyer, Chief of Masulipatam married Mile. Catherine Car-
valho, July 27, 1761. Hamilton, Robert married Georgina
Floyer at Cuddalore, June 23, 1792. John Fullagar married
Rebecca Floyer, April 23, 1724. He died in 1727. She re-
married Richard English, May 17, 1729.
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SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT — cont.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
CEMETERY IN ERUSAPPA CHETTY STREET, CUDDALORE OLD TOWN-^con*.
1199 24th Mar. William Johnson .. In memory of William Johnson, Ensign of the Honorable
1778 Company's Service, who died 24th March 1778, Aged 28 years.
1200 4th May Abraham Pryce . . [Abraham Prycb, aged 42 years.]
1790
Abraham Pryce married Elizabeth Williams on July 10, 1773, at
Vellore.
1201 22nd Oct. Abraham Jarvis . . In Memory of Lieut. Abraham Jarvis of the Hon'ble Company's
1793 Military establishment who died at Cuddalore on the 22nd
October 1793.
He joined the army in 1782 as cadet and was Lieut. August 21,
1790.
1202 27th Mar. John Tulk . . . . Sacred to the memory of the Late Lieutenant John Tulk of the
1821 first Battalion 7th regiment, Madras native Infantry, who
departed this life on the 27th day of march one thousand
eight hundred and twenty- one, Age 30 years.
He had a son and heir on January 2, 1818. (AHiatie Journal, July
1818).
His widow Jane Elizabeth, daughter of H . S. Brice % of Sherborne,
Dorset, married January 28th, 1822, Captain John Wilson,
Barrackmaster and Postmaster at Cuddalore.
VANNARPALIAM CEMETERY IN PALLIKUPPAM, CUDDALORfc.
1203 12th Nov. James Hugonin . . Here lyes the body of James Hugonin, who departed this life
1718 the 12th of Novomber 1718, aged 62 years 10 months and
12 days. Oh! Mortal! endeavour to subject [thy] fleshly
lusts and exchange worldly desires for those of eternity !
[Urquhart who placos it at Thowanah Pettah of Pondicherry, gives
the date as 1778. J
A Swiss and presumably the " old " Captain Hugonin who was
confined in Fort St. David when Richard Raworth, the Deputy
Governor, openly rebelled in 1713 against the authority of Covernor
Harrison. This singular insurrection proved to be a real crisis
in the history of Cuddalore. Henry Devonport (who had married
Jane Chardin, niece of the great traveller) was at once sent from
Madras as Commissary to supersede Raworth, but " finding the
whole garrison dobauchod from their duty, except old Captain
Hugonin and some other officers which wore confined before-
hand " was forced to retire ignominiously. Raworth held out
for two months longer with 130 men under arms, 44 of whom
eighty Europeans, who seemed to bo as stout men as any in the
Company's service." Davenport meanwhile possessed himself of
Condapah choultry and Horse-tail Point, two strategic points,
and was reinforced from Madras by the President, Rev. Mr. Ste-
venson, Lieutenant Roach, Messrs. Theobalds, Bulkley, Maubert,
Nanney, Langlier, Turner and Ricliardson. Tins extraordinary
affair ended by Raworth's escaping to Pondicherry through the
good offices of Governor Dulivier. He eventually reached France
and died in Paris, just as the Directors of the Company were
preparing to prosecute him in England. 44 Lieut. Hugonin the
Swisse, who came ovor by the King William hath behaved
himselfe very well : the few men that hoe brought ovor with him
remained under him in this Garrison." (Public Despatches to
England, Vol. I, 19th October 1H96.) He was later sent to Fort St.
David. Liout. James Hugonin first arrived in 1690 in charge of
a few soldiers among whom probably was his younger brother,
Sergeant Francis Hugonin. (Love II, 38.) In the consultations
of May 12th, 1705, the name of Serjeant Hugonin occurs as
having been promoted to be Ensign of a Company in Fort St.
George, together with one Serjeant William Dixon, a Roman
Catholic. Another Francis Hugonin was the gunner of Fort St.
George, who fired a salute of nearly 1,000 guns at the proclamation
of the Firman granted by Ferookseer, on the 24th July 1717, the
day concluding with " tubs of punch and a bonfire at night and
abundance of fireworks upon the island by the black merchants.* 1
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SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT— ccmt.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date. Name. Inscription.
(2) (3) (4)
VANNARPALIAM CEMETERY IN PALLIKUPPAM, CUDDALORE — cont.
1201 3rd Aug. Sabah Db Morgan.
1720
1205 14th July James Chisholm
1761
Here lies interr'd the body of Sarah Db Morgan, wife of
Captain Db Morgan, who departed this life ye 3rd of August
1720 in ye 30th year of her age, also of her daughter Eliza-
beth, who died ye 3rd December 1720, aged one year 6
months and 5 days.
Captain John De Morgan married Sarah de Pommare, September
2nd, 1717. He lies buried at Pulicat, November 1760( No. 1537).
Here lyeth the body of Jno. Chisholm, Esq., Captain Lieut,
in Coll. Draper's Regiment, who died ye 14th July 1761,
aged 22 [23?] years, on the plain south of the Fort of Pondi-
cherry.
Sir William Draper erected a cenotaph on Clifton Downs near his
house with a Latin inscription, and a list of the officers of the
79th Regiment under his command who fell in Asia. Among the
names is that of ()a\>ta,ii\ Chisholm. Draper's Regiment was
originally the 64th Foot. It arrived at Fort St. George in Sep-
tember 1758, became the 79th Regiment in 1759 and was reduced
soon afterwards. The grade of Captain-Liou tenant was abolished
throughout tho army on March 4th, 1819.
CEMETERY IN SLOPER STREET, CUDDALORE OLD TOWN.
1206 16th Sept. Illegible . . . . Cygit M. de (?) hit Ordonnateur de Karikal, deced^e a Goude-
1782 lour, le XVI Septembre de L'An 1782, Agee de 60 ans.
The name is illegible It may be do Leyrit or de Boistel (see No. 912).
On the 3rd April 1782 Cuddalore surrendered under Captain
Hughes to the combined Mysorean and French armies, M. Duche-
min being in command of tho Pondicherry detachment. It was
besieged again by General Stuart and a sortie of the garrison took
place on June 25th, 1783. Bernadotte, then a young French
Serjeant, was wounded and taken prisoner, together with the
Chevalier do Damas, who led the attack and was inconsolable
because he was unwoundod. Colonel Wangonheim, commander
of tho Hanoverian troops in the English service, was struck by the
young Serjeant's appearance and treated him kindly until his
recovery and release. Many years later when Napolean's army
under Bornadotto entered Hanover, Wangenhoim among others
attended the victor's lev6e and was at once recognized by his old
acquaintance. Wilks recounts the incident in his " Historical
Sketches of the South of India," Volume II, pages 442-3. He
entered tho army as cadet in 1782 and probably had the story
from Wangenheim himself.
1207 2nd Jan. Kjtoria Sloper . . Here lies the body of Mrs. Kitoria Sloper, widow of Robt«
1793 Sloper, Counsellor of Fort St. David, who departed this life
January 2nd, 1793, in the 64 Year of her Age. She was Good
to All.
Mr. Sloper, after whom this street is named, died at Tranquebar,
January 8th, 1762, at the age of 64, and is buried in New Jeru-
salem Churchyard. He married a Miss Ann Crawford, October
28th, 1744. Kitoria was doubtless his second wife.
Capt. Hugh Robert Alcock married Miss Philadelphia Sloper at
Cuddalore August 31, 1770.
. . Here lie in certain hope of a glorious Resurrection the mortal
remains of Francis Lloyd Conductor of Ordnance who
departed this life on the 28th November A.D. 1810 in the
65th year of his age.
16th Dec. John Dougherty .. Here lieth the body of John Dougherty Garrison Serjeant-
1822 Major of Trichinopoly. He died 16th December 1822 aged
40 years. This tomb is erected by his disconsolate widow
Mary Dougherty.
1208 28th Nov. Francis Lloyd
1810
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SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT-<mi.
Date.
Name.
Inscription.
1210
Serial
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
CEMETERY IN SLOPER STREET, CUDDALORE OLD TOWN — cont.
Mrs. M. R. Fowlbb. Sacred to the memory of the late Mrs. M. R. Fowlbb Spouse
of Mr. Condr. Geo. Fowler who departed this life on the
11th November A.D. 1824 aged 31 years & ft months,
leaving a disconsolate husband and 7 children to lament
their irreparable loss.
To the memory of Patrick Gorman, Gunner of the general
Depot who departed this life on the 21st day of July 1833
Aged 45 years. This monument is erected by Mrs. Luisa
Handlon.
Cuddalore 30th Oct. 1835 M, do Silva Sculp.
1211
11th Nov.
1824
21st July
1833
Patrick Gorman
1212 Tuesday,
27th May
1788.
1213 2nd July
1791
1214 3rd Mar.
1793
CHRIST CHURCH, OLD TOWN, CUDDALORE.
(" The Churchyard of Cuddalore " as called by Urquhart.)
John Pringle . . [John Pringle, Major of Guides on the Madras Establish-
ment.]
Urquhart says he died in consequence of a mistake of some violent
medicine, instead of some common salts. No inscription is quoted.
The stone has disappeared. On what little causes, on what little
sports of accidents depend events of the last and greatest import-
ance?
. . Lieut. -Col. James Hughes.
James Hughes
Robert Rollo
1215 4th June
1793
1216 6th April
1794
1217 8th June
1794
Thomas
Gibson.
Samuel
Mary Cookburn
Hamilton Maxwell.
(Lt.-Col. Dupont appointed to the command of the troops at Cudda-
lore vice Hughes deceased).
Here lies the body of Robert Rollo, Esq., Surgeon to the
Residency of Cuddalore, who departed this life on the 3rd
day of March 1793 in the 34th year of his age.
He married Miss Catherine Paulina Gibson on the 1st October 1789,
His widow married James Lennon, Engineer, April 21st, 1794.
She died at Chinsurah 6th September 1824, aged 55 years. James
Lonnon, Esq., died at Calcutta, 27th March 1810, aged 42 years.
Lieut. Lennon of H. M. 74th Kegt., died at Surat of an epidemic
fever April 1810.
To the memory of Thomas Samuel Gibson, Lieutenant in the
Hon'ble Company's Service, who departed this life on the
4th day of June 1793, Aged 23 years.
Mary Cockburn, the excellent wife of John Cockburn, Esq.,
Captain in the Royal Artillery. She was the mother of
eight children, six now living.
Urquhart wrongly places this at Pondicherry.
Beneath this stone are deposited the remains of Hamilton
Maxwell, Esq., son of Sir WillianvMaxwell, of Monreath,
Bart., Aid-de-Camp to the King and Lieutenant-Colonel of
His Majesty's 74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot, who died
universally regretted by all who knew him at the house of
his friend, John Kenworthy, Esq., at New Town on the 8th
of June 1794 in the 40th year of his age. In testimony of
the affection they bore that gallant commander, and as a
tribute to his talents and many virtues, this monument is
erected by the officers of the 74th Regiment.
He commanded with great renown the grenadiers of the army under
Lord Cornwallis during the first Mysore campaign and led the
left division at the attack on Seringapatam in 1792. Mr. Ken-
worthy at whose house he died was Commercial Resident at
Cuddalore and himself died at Madras, July 24th, 1812, when
Senior Member of the Board of Trade. Kenworthy'* death
(not epitaph) is given in Urquhart .Vol. Ill, page 237.
32
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
1218
18th Sept.
1795
SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT— cont.
Name. Inscription.
(3) W
CHRIST CHURCH, OLD TOWN, CUDDALORE — cont.
R. D. Munro . . R. D. Munro, Esq., Senior Merchant in the service of the
H. E. I. Company on this establishment, aged XLIII years.
Mr. Robert Duncan Munro was a writer in 1765, and in 1785 second
in Council at Ganjam. He married, May 8th, 1782, Miss Elizabeth
Esther Williamson.
1219 4th Dec.
1795
M. P. Steeling
1220 29th July.
1800
1221 16th Dec.
1801.
William Stretch
Susanna Leonora
Dupont
1222 10th April William Cullen
1807.
1223 28th Sept. John Dupont
1807.
1224 18th AprU Charles Kay
1809.
Sacred to the memory of Lieut. -Colonel M. P. Sterling of His
Majesty's 74th Regt. commanding Pondicherry, who
departed this life on the 4th December 1795 in the 40th
year, universally known, beloved and respected. An
affectionate husband and a sincere friend. A zealous and
brave officer.
In 1793 after the rocapturo of Pondicherry Lieutenant-Colonel Dixon
commanded the atatiori. In 1802 Colonel de Meuron was in
command.
[Mrs. Herring, the lady of Thomas Herring, Esq. and sister to Col.
Sterling died at Madras on Sunday the 21st Nov. 1791 in tho
flower of youth.] Urquhart Vol. 11, p. 104.
(Captain William Stretch.)
Mrs. Susanna Leonora Dupont, the wife of Lieut. -Colonel
John Dupont, Commandant of Cuddalore, who was on the
14th Dec. 1801, brought to bed of twin daughters and
the 16th sho died of a mortification, aged 24 years and 2
months.
Col. John Dupont married Susanna Loonora D'Veer at Negapatam,
April 14, 1793.
Hickey's Gazette No. 47, lat November 1780 : " Captain Dupont
finding Tippu Saib's party had mado their lodgment good ordered
a retreat into the citadel, which was effected without loss."
Extract from the beginning of Munro 's letter to his mother datod
St. Thome, 26th November 1780: "After the defeat of Col.
Baillie'a army, Hyder returned to the Siege of Arcot ; he took
the Pottah by storm on the 1st of November and the fort sur-
rendered four hours after. Captain Pendergraas commanded •
but being disabled by a wound towards the end of the siege he was
succeeded by Captain Du Pont who delivered up the place. He
says he was forced to it by the Nabob's people refusing to fight.
But Nanjif Chan the Nabob's resident told Sir Eyre Coote that the
people under his command gave overy assistance in their power
and would have continued to do so had the siege lasted longer
. . # . but his remonstrances were disregarded
Hyder gave the English Officers money : and ho presented one of
them with three beautiful horses and a purse of 3,000 rupee*.'*
[Oloig's life of Munro, Vol. I., P. 28. (see No. 1223)].
On March 17, 1818, Mrs. Maria Dupont died, aged 73*
George Crump married Sophia [Elizabeth ?J Dupont, May 1792 at
Cuddalore.
Lieut. -Colonel William Cullen.
Ho was in command of the 80th Foot, and died at Pondicherry of
an apoplexy. He was Captain of the 94th Regiment.
Lieut. -Colonel John Dupont, Commandant of Cuddalore,
aetat. 67 years 3 months and 4 days. When living respected
by the wealthy and poor, and his loss regretted f What can
be said more ?
He was in the Invalid List. See No. 1221.
(Chablbs Kay died at Cuddalore, 18th April 1809.)
Ho joined the army as cadet in 1807.
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Serial
number.
(1)
SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT— cowf.
Date. Name. Inscription.
(2) (3) (4)
CHRIST CHURCH, OLD TOWN, CUDDALORE— cont.
1225 23rd May Edward Campbell.
1809.
1220
1227
122S
1229
12th Aug. Samuel Dew
1809.
1st June Mary Jane Ann
1815. Eraser.
1st April Henry Roberts
1816.
12th May Henry Warner
1825. Kensington.
1230
1st Mtw. Catherine Cockburn.
182G.
1231
23rd May
1833.
Thomas Hicks
To the memory of Edward Campbell, of Ballyshaunon,
Ireland, those lines are inscribed by gratitude. He was a
good son, a good husband, a good father, a warm and disinter-
ested friend. He died a victim to sickness and unrelenting
misfortune, tho* supported by religion. May we, O stranger,
know to bear with equal fortitude the trial of life, the
approach of dissolution, and to look forward with equal
confidence to the mercies of our Creator in a future and a
better world .
A planter known an " Sugar " Campbell, who earao out in 1779 for
the purpose of introducing the West Indian method of manu-
facturing .sugar. Ho worked in the Bam Mahal, Coimbatoro and
Tanjoro and lastly at Chidambaram. After the failure of his
speculation*, the Factory at Chidambaram passed into the posses-
sion of Mr. Thomas Parry. (South Arcot Manual, pago 333).
Lord Valontia stopped with him at his bungalow near Chellumbrum
and was taken by his host to see the pagodas of Chellumbrum
which were illuminated for the occasion (Feb. 2, 1804). Ho
had a son born at Karaikal Feb. 1802. On Aug. 4, 1811, hi*
widow Mrs. E. Campbell marriod at Vizagapatam Major C. Deacon •
1st Bat. 16th Regt. N.I.
(Samuel Dew died at Cuddalore on 1 2th August 1809.)
He joined the army as Cadet in 1809.
Mary Jane Ann, the daughter of Lieut. -Colonel Hugh Fraser,
Commandant of Pondicherry and of Mary Jane Helen
Sauvagere, his wife. Aged 2 years, 9 months and 19 days.
Her father was afterwards Sir Hugh Fraser, K.C.B.
Lieut. -Colonel Henry Roberts, of His Majesty's 34th Regt.,
fifth son of the late Provost of Eaton, aged 44 years.
Ho died suddenly from tho rupture of a blood vessel at Cuddalore.
*' He was a man of true honour, generous and charitable even
to excess ; he lived beloved and has died correspondingly regret-
ted." (Asiatic Journal, Oct. 181tt.)
Henry Warner Kensington, Esq., of tho Madras Civil
Service, aged 32 years.
Register to the Provincial Court, Southern Division. He married
FranCoise Anno Boyd at St. George's Church, Matlras, Octobor
25th, 1815. Ho had a son bom at St. Thome. (Asiatic Journal,
March 1817.) Francois© Konsington died 30th Oct. 1858 and is
buriod at Bangaloro (Agram Cemetery Row 13 No. 21). With her
are buried Isabella, wife of Col. Stevonson 29th March 1857 and
a child Hall Boyd (No. 20). These monuments are caskets o
Gneiss on round supports.
Catherine, the wife of Montagu Dundas Cockburn, of the
H. C. Service, in the 36th year of her ago.
Mr. Cockburn died at Kotagiri, September 28th, 1809. Ho joined
the service as writer in 1807 (No. 2309).
David Cockburn, Esq., of the H.C Civil service, married
Miss Keer on Nov. 10, 1809 at Vriddhachalam.
Major Thomas Htcks of the Madras Establishment. Ho was
born On the 2nd of May 1779 and departed this life in the
33rd year of his service.
Hicks* wife was named Nancy Holding. When Lieut, in 9th N.I.,
he hod a son baptized Robert at Cuddalore, 25th Oct. 1809.
He joined the army as cadet in 1799, was Lieut. 15 Dec. 1800, Cap-
tain Oct. 10, 1810 and Major Feb. 11, 1823. He was invalided,
March 11, 1823.
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SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT — cont.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
CHRIST CHURCH, OLD TOWN, CUDDALORE — cont.
1232 11th Feb. Chables Whitworth Charles Whitworth Allen Dance, Esq., a writer in the
1840. Allen Dance. Hon. E. I. Co. Service, second son of Col. Sir C. W. Dance,
K.H., and of Isabella Ann, his wife, of Barr House, near
Taunton in Somerset. In the 21st year of his age.
He joined tho service as writer in 1839.
1233 26th Aug. Charles Octavius Major Charles Octavius Fothergill of the H.E.I.C.
1852. Fothergill. Service, aged 72 years and 7 months.
Of the 1st N. V. B. He married, October 8th, 1809, at Pulicat a
" Ma'amselle " N. M. Mormerait, who died at Madras, October
16th, I860, aged 64. He joined the army as Cadet in 1803, was
Lieutenant September 21, 1804, Captain October 14, 1818 and
April 11, 1829, was invalided May 25, 1830 in India.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND CEMETERY AT OLD TOWN, CUDDALORE.
1234 5th June Henry Eden .. In memory of Henry Eden-, Esq., in the Honorable India
1768. Company's service, an amiable young gentleman of an ancient
family residing in the county of Durham, who to the great
regret of his relations and friends departed this life on the
5th June 1768 in the 20th year of his age.
He joined the service as writer in 1 764.
1235 3rd Nov. Elizabeth Cosby .. Hero lies tho body of Mrs. Elizabeth Cosby, aged 29 years,
1771 . late wife of Captain H. A. M. Cosby. Mother of five children,
Harriot, Elizabeth, Henry Smith, Augustus and Montague
Cosby. She was a good wife and a fond mother.
The fruits of dying friends survey,
Expose tho vain of life,
Weigh life and death,
Give death his eulogy, thy fear subdue,
And labour, that first palm of noble minds,
A manly scorn of terrors from the tomb.
[From Young's Night Thoughts. Night IIIi26. r >-269. Young was
born 1684 and died 1765.]
Colonel Sir Henry Augustus Cosby, k.c.b., retired in 1787. In Octo-
ber 1774, when Captain, he was appointed to be the first permanent
Adjutant-General of the Army with the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel.
Sir Henry Augustus Montagu Cosby (1743 1822) Lieutenant-
General .only son of Captain Alexander Cosby, was born at
Minorca in 1743. He was Ensign 28th July 1760, Lieutenant, 16th
November 1763, Captain, 20th September 1767, Major 29
August 1780, Liout.-Col. 17th September 1781 and Col. 16th
Aug. 1785. On leave for 3 years to Europe from 5th
December 1786 on half pay. Retired 1787. Ho was promoted
Major-General in 1793 and Lieutenant-Gonoral in 1816 (antidated
to Juno 1792) and died at Bath on 17th January 1822 and was
buried in Bath Abbey, where a monument was erected to him.
He married in 1793 AgneH, daughter of Samuel Eliot of Antigua,
and sister of Lady Le Dosponser. Captain Henry Smith Cosby
was killed. May 2nd, 1799, before Soringapatam ; and Lieutenant-
Colonel Montague Cosby at Seroor, July 14th, 1819. Montague
Cosby was Cornet 12th Deo. 1785; Lieut. 28th Nov.
1792. (See No. 815). Henry S. Cosby was Ensign 8th
July 1778, Lieut. 25th February 1783 and was Brigade
Major to the First Brigade, 1st April 1788. On 30th October
1838, at Gookarum en route from Nagpore to Masulipatam,
Captain C. A. Cosby, 25th N.I. died.
1236 26th Nov. Elizabeth Davis .. Here lies the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Davis, late widow of
1776. Captain Henry Davis, who died November 26, Anno 1776.
Great day of judgement and eternity !
At thoughts of thee, each sublunary wish
Lets go its eager grasp and drops the world,
To catch at heaven.
This curious stanza is repeated on the tombstone of her husband,
who died at Trichiaopoly, May 2nd, 1775 (No. 2680).
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SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT— cant.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
CHURCH OF ENGLAND CEMETERY AT OLD TOWN, C UD DALORE — cont.
1237 12th May Catherine Wood- Sacred to the memory of the best of wives and most amiable
1777. house. of women, Catherine, the beloved wife of Harcourt Wood-
house, Esq., one of his Majesty's Justices of Peace and
Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Hertford, Captain in
the Hon'ble Company's Service and Commandant of the four
independent companies of this garrison in 1775 and 76. Her
form was elegant, her deportment noble. Possess'd of every
virtue, every grace that could adorn her sex, she was religious
without superstition, prudent without meanness, generous
without prodigality, the sweet companion and tho steady
friend. She was — but no moro ! Gratitude from an affec-
tionate husband requires thus much ; love, friendship, and
esteem inscribe tho rest. Sho bore the inevitable stroke with
her usual unshaken fortitude on the 12th of May 1777, about
the 47th yea r of her age.
Alas ! in this neglected spot is laid
A heart once pregnant with celestial fire,
Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd
Or wak'd to extacy the living lyre.
The coat of arms bears tho word " Agincourt " and the motto-
*' Frappe Fort/* Captain Philip Dormer Stanhopo, in his " Gen-
uine Memoirs of Asiaticus " writes thus in a letter dated Chilling-
brum, September 1775: "From Pondicherry I proceeded to
Cuddalore, a fort of considerable extent but in a most shattered
conflition, situate on the moat beautiful spot in India, and distant
about a mile from tho ruinp of Fort St. David's, which at the close
of the last year was given up to the French, and the fortifications
lovolled with the ground. I was here most politely entertained
by Captain Harcourt Woodhouse, formerly of tho county of
Hertfordshire, who having spent a considerable fortune in every
species of fashionable dissipation, entered the service of trm
Company and though in his seventieth year, still retains a great
share of that activity and vigour for which he was distinguished in
his youthful days."
1238 7th Jan. Marta Chase . . Here lyeth the body of Mrs. Maria Chase, wife of Lieut. R.
j 779 Chase, Town Major of Pondicherry, who departed this life
7th January 1 779, aged 25 years. Her ways were the ways of
pleasantness and all her paths were peace. ("From her
tombstone in the church of Cuddalore.")
Richard Chase, son and grandson of R. Chase, went out to India in
1771 and was one of Hyder's prisoners (1780-4). He was Ensign
15th June 1771, Lieut. 24th January 1776, Captain 2nd
November 1783, was in 1787 in the 7th Battalion. Invalided at
his own request 16th July 1792. He died in 1834.
Richard Chase was Mayor of Madraspatnam in 1800. He married
MissNeale, May 15th, 1798. His brother Thomas Chase, C. S. f
died at Vizagapatam, February 8th, 1808. Miss Ann Chase
married Captain John Murray, June 27, 1 789. (See No. 2799).
123*> 14th Sept. John Rowley . . Here lyes the body of John Rowley of Richmond in the county
18 Q5 # of York, Esq., Senior Judge of the Provincial Court of Appeal
at Trichinopoly who departed this life the 14th of September
in the year 1805, in the 43rd year of his age.
He entered the service as writer in 1777, and was stationed for
several years at Madapollam. He died at Pondicherry. Hi**
wife was a Miss Maria Westcott, whom he married December
1801. (See No. 306).
1240 Nov. E. Mickleson . . (At Porto Novo, Captain E. Mickleson of the Country Sea
1810. Service.)
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CHURCH OF ENGLAND CEMETERY AT OLD TOWN, CUWALORE-CO^
1241 5th Aug. J. Coufland . . (At Cuddalore Mr. Conductor J. COUPLAND.)
1811.
Mr. W. Coupland Inspector of Stores at Tanjore by 0.0. J 2th August
1791.
1242 25th Aug. George Gilbert Sacred to the memory of George Gilbert Keble, Esq., Sub-
1811. KEBLE. Treasurer and Post Master General under the Presidency of
Fort St. George, who departed this life on the 25th day of
August 1811, aged 35 years and 6 months.
There is a monument to his memory in St. Mary's Church, Fort St.
George. Ho was French Translator to Government in 1799, and
translated the French papers found in Tippoo Sultan's records.
He enterod the service as writer in 1 794. He died at Cuddalore.
1243 5th June Ernest William Sacred to the memory of Ernest William Fallowfield, Esq.,
1816. Fallowfield. Senior Merchant in the Hon'ble Company's Civil Service of
the Madras Establishment, who departed this life at Pondi-
cherry, aged 64 years 1 1 months and 27 days. Mr. Fallow-
field enterod the Civil Service of this establishment in the year
1767 and passed through the different ranks of it with dis-
tinguished ability, diligence and integrity. He at different
times filled the important situations of Chief at Cuddalore,
Resident at Nagore, Nogapatam and Karical, Collector of the
revenue of the country of Tanjore, Member of the Council
of Fort St. George, Magistrate and Collector of Pondicherry
and Cuddalore, and lastly a Member of the Board of Trade.
In his manners he was reserved and modest, but warm and
affectionate in his feelings. To all the above situations, he
was called by Government without solicitation on his part,
and he quitted none of them without begetting the esteem
of all with whom he was connected in office. His excellent
understanding was oqual to any duty, and the mildness and
urbanity of his manners, made every discharge of duty
facile to himself and satisfactory to others. To thee, reader,
he has left these virtues, for thy imitation.
He was one of the Members of Council who signed tho despatch to
the Court of Directors, datod May 11th, 1799, announcing the fall
of Seringapatam. It was received per Sarah Christiana, September
13th, 1 799. Tho despatch is quoted in the Asiatic Annual Register
for 1 799. (State Papers Appendix page 91 .) Tho other signatories
were Mornington, Clive and W. Petrie. William Petrio arrived in
Madras 23rd January 1 765. He died 27th October 1816 as Gover-
nor of Princo of Wales Island. Mr. Fallowfield married, December
13th, 1808, Mrs. Jany Elizabeth Honoria Pern on, widow of Eugene
Pernon, Master Attendant of Pondicherry, who died March 24th,
1807 (No. 835).
1244 1820 William Johnston . . (At Cuddalore, Coast of Coromandel East Indies William
Johnston, Esq., eldest son of Mr. John Johnston, Ayr.)
1245 18th Oct. Isabella Fraser . . Mrs. Isabella Fraser, aged 66 years, widow of Colonel Charles
1821. Fraser, late of the H.E.I. C. service. She was born on the 1st
June 1755 and died on the 18th October 1821 .
Colonel Fraser himself died at Masulipatam, April 27th, 1795, aged
56 years. He was one of the Frasers of Ardachie, the junior
branch of the Frasers of Lovat. His younger son, Lieutenant
Colonel J. S. Fraser, when British Commissioner at Pondicherry,
married, July 18th, 1826, Miss Henrietta Stevenson, daughter of
No. 1246, and was afterwards Resident at Hyderabad. Charles
Fraser married at Campbell Town, December 16th, 1768, a Miss
Hook. Their oldest son, born at Vellore, August 5th, 1771, was
named Hastings Fraser after Warren Hastings, then a member of
Council at Madras, and died a General in 1854 (See Nos. 183, 1874
and 2315).
37
1247
1st April
1823.
1248 14th Aug.
1824.
SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT-co«<.
Serial Date. Name. t
number. ' Inscription.
<*> < 2 > O) (4 )
CHURCH OF ENGLAND CEMETERY AT OLD TOWN, CUDDALORE — cont.
1246 16th ^ Jan. Edward William Edward William Stevenson, in the 44th year of his age.
1823. Stevenson. He left a disconsolate widow and seven children to mourn his
loss.
Master Attendant at Porto Novo, where ho erected a tomb to his
nephew Daniel Stevenson. His widow Maria Barbara died at
Tranquobar, April 18th, 1872, at the age of SI. She was the
second daughter of Colonel Mathias Jurgon von Muhldorff, a
Royal Engineer of Denmark. (See No. 2435). She was the
sixth of all the children and also of the daughters (three died
very young). Of those who survived and marriod, she was the
third, not the second- -Row K. Heiborg.
William French William French, Esq., Hon. Company's Civil Service, son of
Arthur French, Esq., M.P., for Roscommon in Ireland.
French was a writer in 1 HI 4. There is a pillar to his memory at
Tirukoilur " his favourite place of residence" where he died.
He was the younger brother of the first Lord De Freyne. A
peerage had been promised to John French, M.P., for Roscommon »
1743-75, the brother of t his man's father ; but he was drowned on
the passage from Dublin to Park Gate in 1775, and his brother
refused to accept the honours.
William Parry, William Parry, Esq., of Madras, who died at. Porto Novo, aged
George Parry 56 years. Also thoso of George Parry Gibson, son of the
Gibson. late Major C. Gibson, who died on the same day and in the
same year, aged 10 years.
William Parry arrived December 1793 with his wife and child (born
during the passage). There is a monument to Parry in St. George's
Cathedral, Madras (No. 464).
. . Rev. I. G. Holzberg, agod 56. He was a native of Lusatia in
Saxony and faithful minister 23 years at this church.
44 Native of Gorlitz ; graduate of Leipsic ; arrived 1797, and joined
Schwartz at Tan j ore ; wont to Cuddalore in 1 803 ; dismissed by
the S.P.C.K., but continued working at Cuddalore till his death in
1824."
44 Holzberg was bom at Obernuendorf near Gorlitz in Upper Lusatia
and was educated at Leipzig." Ho 44 was tainted with German
Rationalism. He was long settled at Cuddalore which did not
flourish in his hands. And an early friend of mine once men-
tioned his ministry as a blight, rather than a blessing. I deter-
mine not." (Taylor, page 81).
The Rev. Immanuel Gottfried Holzberg has left a most interesting
register of Births, Deaths and Marriages, kept partly in Latin
His widow Jane died December 25th, 1836, aged 78.
.. Re vd. Henry Allen, m.a., Military Chaplain at this station,
aged 32 years.
Henry Allen was born in 1797; he was the son of James Allen of
Lymington, Hants. He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford,
29th June 1815, agod 18 ; graduated b.a., 1822. A tablet was put
up to his memory in the old mission church.
His widow Anne married, March 23rd, 1831, F. A. West, C.S., who
died at Arcot, September 26th, 1832.
1251 15th June Charles Edward and Sacred to the memories of C. E. Macdonald, Esq., late of the
1832 and Agnes Macdonald. Madras Civil Service, who whilst in the discharge of his
7th July duty was brutally assaulted at Cuddappah by an infuriated
1832. band of Mooselmen, in the 24th year of his age : and of
1249
19th Dec.
1824.
I. G. Holzberg
1250 8th Mar. Henry Allen
1829.
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SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT — cont.
Serial
< limber.
Date
Name*
Inscription.
(I) (2) (3) (4)
CHURCH OF ENGLAND CEMETERY AT OLD TOWN, CUDDALORE — cant
Agnes his wife who died on the 7th of July 1832 of a broken
heart aged 20.
Charles Edward Macdonald joined service as writer in 1 826. He
married a daughter of E. W. Stevenson. He was a grandson of
" Flora " Macdonald, whoso son Colonel John Macdonald married,
October 24th, 1799, the daughter of Sir Robert Chambers, colleague
of Impey and Hyde in the Calcutta Supreme Court. C. E. Mac-
donald's daughter Flora married first a Captain Conde , and then
Henry Hamilton of Fairfield noar Exeter (See No. 1617).
1252
16th Jan.
1840.
Daniel Schrbyvogel.
1253
17 th July
1840.
E. W. Pallowfield.
1254 21st July Edward
1842. Jones.
Jarrett
1255
14th Oct.
1854.
W. Warden
Sacred to the memory of the Revd. Daniel Schreyvogel,
aged 63 years. He devoted himself to missionary labours,
and was engaged in the year A.D. 1800 in the service of the
Royal Danish Mission : he arrived in India A.D. J 804, and
remained in the service of that Mission at Tranquebar, until
A.D. 1826 when he was engaged by the Right Reverend the
Lord Bishop Heber, in the service of the Incorporated Society
P.G.F.P. and placed in charge of that society's mission at
Trichinopoly, which continued to be under his superintendence
until his demise.
Native of Lindau in Bavaria ; graduate of Leipsic and Halle ; was
at Tranquebar from 1803 to 1826; ordained by Bishop Hober
in 1826 and omployed by the S.P.G. at Trichinopoly from 182ft
to 1840 when he died at Pondicherry.
His wife Charlotte died at Tranquebar, September 17th, 1819,
aged 27 years (No. 2391 ). Schreyvogel has a tablet to his memory
on the wall of Christ Church, Trichinopoly.
Sacred to the memory of E. W. Fallowfield, Esq., aged 28.
This tablet is erected to his memory by his friend E. Mottet,
Esq.
Captain Edward Mottet, of the Nizam's Service, married, February
4th, 1828, Georgiana Honoria, daughter of the late E. W. Fallow-
field, C.S. Sir Henry RusselL Bart., Resident at Hyderabad,
married, November 13th, 1816, Mile Clotilde Mottet, probably a
relation. Ernest William James Fallowfiold was baptized at
Pondicherry, 3rd April 1810, bom 5th August 1809.
Sacred to the memory of the Reverend Edward Jarrett
Jones, missionary in this place of the Incorporated Society
P.G.F.P. and domestic missionary chaplain to the Lord
Bishop of Madras. Ho arrived in Calcutta on the 4th Novem -
ber 1832 with the Right Reverend Dr. Wilson, the present
Bishop of that diocese by whom he was ordained deacon on
tho 2nd June 1833, and priest at Tanjore on the 31st January
1835. Having been appointed to labour among the heathen,
and native Christians in this diocese (then only an archdeacon-
ry), he labored for a short time at Tanjore and since 1834
in this place, where the exemplary performance of his pastoral
duties together with his most mild demeanour and affectionate
disposition, gained for him the most filial love and confidence
of his people. He departed this life on the evening of the
21st July 1842 at Pondicherry (whither he had been taken
for the benefit of change). Aged 32 years 1 Month and
21 Days.
He was born in 1810. After arrival at Calcutta in 1832, he was a
student at Bishop's College, Calcutta.
Sacred to the memory of Assistant Surgeon W. Warden of the
74th Highlanders, who died 14th October 1854, aged 25 years.
Erected by his brother officers.
39
SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT— cord.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
Name.
Inscription.
(4)
(2) (3)
CHURCH OF ENGLAND CEMETERY AT OLD TOWN, CUDDALORE — cont.
1256 1st Aug. John Puqh . . To the memory of John Pitch, Esquire, of the Firm of Messrs.
1862. Parry & Co. of Madras for a long time resident at this station,
born 22nd March 1822, died in London Ist August 1862.
This tablet was erected by his partners in affectionate regard
for his sterling worth.
The motto on the coat of arms is " Duw am gwlad " (for our land).
1257 14th Mar. Ootavius Butler To the memory of Octavius Butler Irvine, Madras Civil
1880. Irvine. Service. For many years Judge nt this station and Lay
Trustee of this Church, who died at Vizagapatam, 14th
March 1880, aged 48. This tablet is erected to his memory
by his friends at Cuddalore.
He was bitten when hunting with a cheetah and died of blood-
poisoning. A most interesting memorial of Mr. Irvine and other
old residents of the station is to be found in the archivial whist
box presented to the Cuddalore Club by thirteen of its original
members in 1865. It bears the inscription: "The Cuddalore
Club instituted in the days of VV. S. Whiteside (C.S.), H. E.
Busteed (C.I.K.), P. L. Roberts (C.S.),G.D. Irvine (C.S.), T. H. B.
Young, C. W. Reado (C. S.), G. Banbury (C. 8.), F. C. Carr (C. S.),
W. S. Harrington, J. Grose (C. S.) f O. B. Irvine (C. 8.), W. O.
Swanston, G. H. Ellis (C. 8.), 1865." Various Latin mottos adorn
the sides. Left, " Quod latet ignotum est, quod sors foret*
feremus aequo animo." Right, l< Ludus animo debet aliquando
dari, ad cogitandum melior ut redeat tibi." Front, " Cede
repugnanti, cedendo victor abibis." Back, " Accipe si vis.
Accipiam tabulas ; detur nobis locus, hora, sodales. Videamus
uter plus scribere possit." Dr. Busteed, one of the donors and
author of the well-known " Echoes from Old Calcutta," was for
some time stationed at Cuddalore, and within the eite of Fort
St. David i* a little monument erected by him, 4< in memoriam
laborum, dolorum ac ludorum •omitis fidolis Nettle eheu tenebrosa
nocte anguis latentis victimae hoo monumentum erexit maerens
H. E. B. Obiit 3 die Feb. 1862." All that is loft of Fort St. David
is the foundation with here and there lumps of the broken wall,
and subterranean galleries now choked up, which visitors, reading
the warning inscribed on the monument of the dog, are not likely
to explore. G. Banbury's father was born in 1766.
PORTO NOVO.
Porto Novo '* New Port " known also as Feringhipett or Mahomed Bandar received its nanio from the Portuguese who settled
there in the 16th century. An English sottlemont was made there in 1683.
1258 19th Dec. Margaritha Pfeiffer Christus is myn leven, sterven is myn Gewin. Vrow Mar-
1730. and Family. garitha Hackaart, zeer waarde gemalinne van den E.
Matthys Pfeiffer is geboren tot Paliacatta, primo January
anno 1698, en overleden den 19 December anno 1730. Haar
eerste soontje genaamt Jasper Theodorus Pfeiffer
geboren tot Porto Novo den 17 December anno 1717. en
overleden den 24 dito. Susanna Pfeiffer, geboren mode
aldaar anno 1726. den 15 February, en gestorven ultimo
Maart Ao 1727. Anno 1724. Den 4 April, is geboren tot
Nagapatnam, Catharina Willelmina van der Burg
behoud dochtertje vanden boven gem. en overleden den 20
December Ao 1731.
Dees steen bedekt het rif van Moeder, Dochters, Zoon.
Haar zielen zyn om hoog by God in's Hemels Woon,
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SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT — cont.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
PORTO NOVO — cont.
Wei Zalig is de mensch wiens leven hier zoo Eende
Met voorsmaak van Godsvreugd, bevryd van al Elende.
Mr. S. O. Roberts writes. — " The epitaphs on this tomb are-
" inscribed in raised letters on a large, oblong cast metal plate
enclosed in a border of flowers, with cherubs' heads at the four
" corners. Abovo the inscription is a large wreath of acanthus
" leaves, enclosing a royal helmet surmounting an armorial shield
" The helmet has, for crest, a domi-pipor in the dress of the begin.
*' ning of the eighteenth century, playing on a recorder or flute.
" The shield bears a full length representation of a piper, playing
" on a recorder. He is dressed in a three cornered hat, long
" flapped coat with flapped pockets, knee breoches, stockings
" and shoes and faces the spectator. Ho wears a rapier.' '
1259 20th July Willbm Spits . . Let op den Vroomen, eende siet na den opregten, want het
1737. eynde van dien man sal vreede zyn ! Ps. 37. 37.
Die vreede Lievend' was, steeds in welmenendheyd.
Een ioder zyne gaf en door gedienstigheyd
Elks Harte tot sig trock, rust nu te deser Haven
Dog zyn gedagtenis blyft by ons on begrafen.
Onder desen zarke rust sr. Willem Spits, in desselfs leven
boekenfactuur-houder ten desen comptoire Porto Novo,
geboren tot Nagapatnam den 13 December anno 1684 en
alhior overleden, den 20 July 1737, oud 52 Jaren 7 maanden
en 7 dagen.
Mr. S. O. Roberta writes. — " The inscription is inscribed in
" similar manner and on a plate similar to the above, and is enclo .
" sed in a border of flowers much resembling the first. It also
*' bears a helmet and shield, but these are surrounded by heraldic
" flourishes, instead of being enclosed in a wreath. The helmet
" is a knight's tilting helmet, visor down, represented, as the
44 helmet on the Pfeiffer tomb, fullface. It bears, as crest, a
" heraldic rose, from the centre of which rises a funoral obelisk
«* adorned with a single chevron inverted. The obelisk and
" chevron arc reproduced on the shield, standing on a hill bet.
" ween two conventional cypress trees. There aro no indications
"of the tinctures and metals employed in blazoning either of
the above shields or crests." The quotation from the Psalm.s
** runs in English : kl Mark the perfect man and behold the
" upright ; for the end of that man is peace."
1260 30th Aug. John Pocklky Hero lies the body of John Pockley Attwood, Captain in the
1786. Attwood. Honorable Company's service, aged 43 years.
James Estcourt Atwood, 1st chaplain of St. Thomas Mount died
thero on 24th July, 1810, aged 54 years.
1261. 14th Aug. Danikl Stevenson Daniel Stevenson, Esq., who departed this life in the 58th
1806. year of his age, universally esteemed and regretted by all who
knew him. This tomb is erected by his affectionate nephew
E. W. Stevenson.
No epitaph is quoted by Urquhart. Daniel Stevenson is describod by
Urquhart as brother to Col. Stevenson of the Madras establish-
ment and partner in the firm of Stevenson and Harrop of Tran-
quebar." Ho married Metta Margaretha Sundt widow of Kotting,
" Grenadier - Capitain in english service". A sister of hers
married the brother of Bliicher. Another sister married Colonel
Muhldorft" and died at Tranquebar, June 23rd, 1814. Michael
Sundt, their father, was a Lieutenant in the Danish Company's
service and died at Tranquebar, May 21st, 1785. Daniel Steven-
son's brother was Major-General James Daniel Stevenson (d.
February 21st, 1805 according to Dodwoll and Mile's « Alphabe-
tical List of officers of the Madras Army'). Ho died at his house
in Orchard St., Portman Square, in the parish of St. Marylebone
and was buried within the consecrated ground surrounding the
historic church of St. Marylebone on the 21&t February 1805.
41
Serial
mimbor.
Date.
(2)
1262
8th Oct.
181ft.
SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT — cont.
Name. Inscription.
(3) (4)
POBTO NOVO— «ro/.
No stone, however, now remain* to murk the hallowed spot,,
nor is there any tahlet within the sacred edifice recalling the
memory of the distinguished soldier. Ho married Elizabeth
West, daughter of Captain James West, A.D.C. to General
Draper, and Ann nee de Morgan, the widow of Captain John
Tnnes (see No. 204). E. W. Stevenson was the son of a younger
brother, who married Rosalia Fischer nee Tournae *' vz. Edvard
Stevenson, Merchant at Tranquebar and Rosalie de Tauranarh,
widow of Colonel J. J. Fischer." -See Marriage Register February
24, 1779, and Baptismal Register November 15th, 1779 (Rev.
K. Heiberg). (No. 2440) E.'W. Stephenson [sic] was in 1795
Commander of the ship Neptune. Charles Wetherell, C. S., married
Frances Stevenson (died a R.C.) at Rajalimundry October
20th, 1797. ("apt. E. P. Stevenson 25th Regiment, N.I. married
Miss Sarah Stevenson on fith May 1S07.
Alexina, daughter to Mr. Alexander Wrioht, born on the
first of May 181<>, died on the 8th October 1819. This monu-
ment is erected as a last tribute due to her by an affectionate
father.
Alexina Wright
1263 13th April John Milward
1835.
1264 15th June Robert Wood
1835.
1265 13th Feb. John Jones
1836.
1266 24th Aug. William Brazier
1836.
Mr. Alexander Wright's wife was named Martha. She died
at Tranquebar on July 29, 1824, aged 44 years.
Mr. Wright's daughter Arabella married, February 7th, 1821,
Mr. W. E. Peterson of Tranquebar.
John Milward, smelter in the service of the Iron and Steel
Company, aged 45 years.
Robert Wood, plate roller in the service of the Iron and Steel
Company, aged 47 years.
John Jones, puddler in the service of the Iron and Steel Com-
pany, aged 41 years.
William Brazier, shingler in the service of the Iron and Steel
Company, aged 29 years.
The inscriptions on the tombs of some of those who were servant*
of the Iron Company are on east iron sheets — almost the only iron
which remains to show the work of the Company. Its founder
was Mr. Josiah Marshall Heath, who died January 28th, 1851.
Ho had resigned the Civil Service; in 1829 in order to devote hiw
attention to the Company and was ruined by it. A full history
of those unfortunate Porto Novo Iron Works may be read in
Mr. Garstin's " District Manual " of South Arcot (see No. 23KJ).
" The Indian Steel & Iron Company was started in 1833 with
factories at Porto Novo (South Arcot), Heypore (from the
terminus of the Madras Railway Company) in Malabar and at
Palampetti in Salem." — (New Asiatic Review for September 1907,
vol. 1, No. 9 at page 439). Dickens was a personal friend of
Heath.
PORTO NOVO ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.
[ a Facing the sea is a little hillock, where the moving sand covers with a thin curtain the sparse grass of former times*
Some scanty trees lean mournfully round it, a forest of eaitus hides two or three tottering walls surrounded by a few-
tombstone crosses ; there is the church or rather the ruins of what was tho church of Porto Novo. In the middle of these
ruins two marble slabs in good preservation testify to the graves. The first is that of .John Harrop who died 30th May 1770
and was buried near the High altar : in the other opposite the side altar to tho right is buried Louisa Weston, died 10th
November 1820 " (Father Prudent of Cuddalore 1890 in De Lausay. Histoiro des missions de Plnde 1898, P. XV.)].
1267
30th May
1776.
John Harrop
1268
10th Nov.
1820.
Louisa Weston
Aqui jaz sepultado o corpo de Joao Harrop menino de idade»
de hum anno © cinco mezes faleceo aoa 30 de Mayo de 1776.
Menino means a child, as in " Las Meninas," the famous picture
of tho little maids of honour by Velasquez, in which tho artist
haa introduced himself at the easel in the act of painting the
portrait of King Philip IV. Harrop is a Danish name, and thin
little child was probably the son of a partner in tho firm of
Stevenson and Harrop of Tranquebar. A Mr. G. Harrop died
at Tranquebar, September 1799, while Chief of Porto Novo.
Louisa Weston, the daughter of W. W. Weston, Esq., aged
7 months and 10 days.
Her father William Willis Weston, Port officer and merchant, lies
buried at Cuddalore, July 19th, 1828, agod 47. Ho was merchant
in 1817.
42
SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT — cont.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
CONIMERE.
t2fi9 2nd June Mabia Westrbnbn .. Hier leyt begraven Juffr. Maria dk Visser, huysvrouw van
1703. Gerrit Wbstrbnen boeckhouder in dienst der E. Compo
overleden den 2en Juny anno 1703 oud 21 iaren 11 maanden
en 7 dagen.
Conimere or Kunyimodu lies 13 miles north of Fondicherry. The
English settlement there is better known than the Dutch. An
English factory was established in 1682 in consequence of a pre-
liminary failure at Cuddalore. John Wilcox, the first Chief, with
Richard Milton, accornptant and Ralph Ord, warehousekooper,
set out on October 25th, 1682, and on November 9th, received
a cowle from the Havildar of Tindivanam. In 1688 John Nicks
was appointed to be Chief and Conimere is best known to fame
through his wife's private trading during his Ohiefship. Throe *
years later the Court kt do hereby expel from our service that
expensive and unjust person Mr. Nicks and all those that assisted
him in that wicked sortment." Tn 1692 Mr. Dolben, the Judge
Advocate, issued a warrant to arrest Mrs. Nicks >k being a woman
notoriously known to be a separate merchant from her husband
and a guard of musketeers was put over her house at Madras.
She paid what was demanded and, after a short visit to England,
returned to Fort St. George, where she died in 1709, and hor
husband in 1711.
POTTANUR.
" The District Manual " describes the sito as being on the high road 4 miles west of Pondicherry and close to the French
Frontier.
1270 11th Oct. Augustus De Morgan. Sacred to the memory of Captain Augustus De Morgan, who
177$. was killed in the execution of his duty October 11th, 1778
in the sap battery before Pondicherry, aged 39 years, greatly
beloved and sincerely lamented by all who knew him. A
loss to the service, friendship and society. This monument
is erected by his nephews George and James Tnnes as a
testimony of their regard.
[From a monument erected to his memory on tho plain south of
Pondicherry.]
Tho deceased and two brother officers were blown up in a battery,
which they had vainly reported to be unsafe. De Morgan's
head is said to have been completely severed from his body by
tho explosion. He was an artillery oflicer and the only surviving
son of John De Morgan (No. 1537), one of whoso daughters married
an Innes (see No. 264). Augustus De Morgan married Christina,
daughter of tho Rev. O. H. Conrad Hutteinanu, a Tranquebar
Missionary (1728-1781) and Kiornandor's assistant at Cuddalore,
where he died the year before the town fell into tho hands of the
French. Mrs. DeMorgan died at Ganjam in 1774 (No. 1627).
They had three sons. The eldest, George Augustus, born at
Vellore 1771, entered the Madras Cavalry and was killed in an
action against Tippoo's troops at Amboor in 1792. Edward
died an infant. The second son John, bom December 21st,
1 792, was married when a Lieutenant in tho Madras army to Miss
Elizabeth Dodson daughter of John Dodson and granddaughter
of John Dodson K.R.S. 41 at Colombo by the Rev. Mr. Ph. Rosen-
hagen in presence of John Briggs and Honor Briggs, 4th August
1798." From this union sprang the great mathematician. ** At
Madura 27th June 1806, tho Lady of Captain John DeMorgan
of a son." This child was the fifth of a family of seven. His
two older brothers, John Augustus and James Turing DeMorgan,
were lost off the Cape in June 1804 in the wreck of the Prince of
Wales Indiaman. The mathematician lived till 1871. By his
wife Sophia Elizabeth, daughter of William Frond, architect,
he had seven children, of whom one son and one daughter survive
(see Nos. 339, 1204 and 2781).
Honor Dodson married at Madras January 18th, 1798, Surgeon
John Briggs, Esq. and Sophia Dodson married at Madras August
31st, 1803 Josiah Coghill Cramer R. N. Commander of H. M.
sloop Rattlesnake, At Madras in April 1805 Lieut J. L. Watson of
the 80th Regiment married Miss Anna Maria Dodson, daughter
of James Dodson, Esq., of the Longroom, Customs House.
43
SOUTH ARCOT DISTRICT — cont.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
POTT ANUR — cont .
" Send out as writers this season : John Nodes, Francis Jourdan*
Josiah Hay ward, Samuel Peako, Augustus do Morgan and Peter
Perring : ami Cadets for Madras William Thomson and John
Agey " DodwelPs Calendar of Madras Despatches, 1754 — 65,
page 183 (November 1st, 1758, Despatch from Company to
George Pigot).
1271 14th Oct. William Stbvens . . Sacred to the memory of William Stevens, Esq., Major in the
1778 East India Company's service and Chief Engineer at the
siege of Pondicherry, who was unfortunately killed by a
cannon ball. Ho was a gallant soldier and an honest man,
justly esteemed while living, sincerely regretted now dead.
This monument was erected by Major General Sir Hector
Munro, K.B., as a token of his regard and esteem.
Major Stevens was wounded in the advanced batteries of tho south-
west attack and died the same evening. General Munro, tho
hero of buxar, had laid siege to Pondicherry on tho 8th August
1778, with an army of 10,500 men, of whom 1,500 were Europeans.
On tho 10th of tho same month Admiral Edward Vernon with four
ships fought an indecisive battle in the roads with Hvo Fronoh
ships under M. Tronjoly, who some days later sailed away and
left the town to its fate. After a gallant defence M. do Bello-
combe, the Governor, surrendered the town on the 18th of October.
Article I of the capitulation runs : U belle defense faite par le
Maj. Gen. do Hellocombe et sa garuison exige avee raison to u ten
les marques d'honneur. Cost pourquoi il est permis a la gamisotL
do sortir avoc les honnours de la guerre. Arrive** sur le glacis,
elle mettra ses armos en faiscoaux par coimnandemont do sos
pTopres ofticiors et les y laissera avoc les tambours, canons et
mortiers. II est permis a tous los ofliciers en general de garder
lours annus, et sur la requisition particuliere du General de Bolio-
oombp, lo regiment de Pouciichgry gardera sos drapeaux.'*
Among those who took part in the dofonce was the Breton sailor
of fortune Madec, whose life and adventures are narrated in
M. Emile Barbe's book le Nabab K^ne Madec. " The muster
roll contains an even more interesting name, k * Barras, chassour
au regiment de Pondiehery." Chasseurs ranked below sub-
lieutenants and were of tho grade of eleves-ofUeiors. Barru»
was born June 30th, 1755, and entered the Languodoe Regiment
at the age of Hi. He then received a commission in the Rogiment
de Pondichory, and asked to be sent out to his kinsman M. de
Chabrillane, Governor of the Isle de France. On his way ho
stopped at the Cape of Good Hope where he met Captain Cook,
** who welcomed me in kindly fashion and I came very near accom-
panying hiin to austral lands." At Port St. Louis he learnt
that tho Kuglish were making great designs on French India and
obtained permission to join his regiment at Pondicherry. On
the fall of the town he became a prisoner on parole in Madras
and Poonamallee, which he spells Pont Dainal^. Barras'
subsequent rise to prominence during the French Revolution is
well known. La loi du 3 Ventose Pan HI destined him to
return to India with two other commissaires, Le Tourneur (de la
Manche) and Armand (de la Meuse) : but the party never
started. On 23 Thermidor Pan IX, Barras had been named
Commandant General of the armies of Paris.
Stevens was an intimate friend of Swartz. " General Munro who
knew that Major Stevens and I lived together as bretliron oondolod
with me in the kindest manner saying kl You will not get another
Stevens again, however 1 request you will consider me as your
friend Swartz wrote a letter to Chambers from Stevens's
quarters at Triehy 25th J une 1778.
In Hickey's Gazette (1780 April 29th to May 6th No. XV) are
congratulatory stanzas on tho fall of Pondicherry. The last
verse is :
Stevens thy worth thy Skill shall show
Recorded by Truths Otc] sacred hand
For ages yet to come."
Note. — Our Chief Engineer who was unfortuiiately killed by a
oannon ball in the afternoon of 14th October at the very time
the Frenchmen were meditating to surrender.
Francis Jourdan was his Executor (Love, Vol. Ill, p. 152). He
himself died Nov. 14, 1784.
VOL. II — 6a
44
RorUl
Date.
1272 28th Sept.
1800.
1273 4th May
1802.
1274 25th May
1803.
BELLARY DISTRICT.
Name. Inscription.
BELLARY CANTONMENT CEMETERY.
John Falconer
R. H. Williams
John Ford
(Captain John Falconer of the Hon'ble Company's service
died at Bellary on the 28th September 1800.)
(Lieut. R. H. Williams of the 1st Battalion 12th Native
Infantry on May 4, 1802 at Bellary.)
He joined the army in 1799 as Cadet.
(On 25th May 1803, at Bellary Lieut. Colonel John Ford
of His Majesty's 80th Regiment.)
1275 20th July
1805.
127« 11th Mar.
1807.
George W. Holling- (Lieut. George W. Hollingworth died 20 July 1805
worth. in camp at Bellary, 16th Native Tnfantry.)
He joined the army at* Cadet in 1803 and was Lieut. September 21,
1804.
James William (James William Miller, Sheriff of Madras in 1807.)
Miller.
1277 10th Feb.
1808.
Hector Shaw
Hector Shaw, Esq., of the Honorable Company's Madras
Civil Service.
He joined the service as writer in 180] and, at the time of his
death, wan Collector of the Zillah of Kodicondy, now an insigni-
ficant village in Anantapur, but formerly a flourishing head*
quarter town.
1278 4th Oct.
1808.
1279 14th June
1809.
George Dodsworth. Lieut.-Colonel George Dodsworth, of H.M.'s 34th Regt.»
aged 46 years. Erected by his widow.
Lady Ogilby
(At Bellary, Lady Ogilby.)
1280 15th Nov.
1809.
1281 3rd Dec.
1809,
1282 27th Feb.
1813.
1283 28th April
1813.
1284 10th May
1813.
Captain Bourke
John Campbell
John Payne
Lady Fallowfield.
(At Bellary, Captain Bourke of His Majesty's 86th Regiment.)
Captain John Campbell, 12th Regt., N.T., aged 26 years.
Deputy Judge Advocate of the Ceded Districts. He joined the
army as Cadet in 1797, was Lieutenant Oct. 12, 1798 and
Captain July 2f>, 1805.
(Ensign John Payne 1st Batt., 4th Regiment.)
He was Cadet in 1806 and Ensign July 3, 1807.
(At Bellary, the Lady of Mr. Fallowfield, Staff Surgeon to the
field force under the Command of Lt. Col. Dowse.)
John St. George Lieut. John St. George Ferns, of the 2nd Baf t., 13th Regt.
Ferns. Erected by his surviving friends and brother officers.
He married Miss Irwin, May 1811. He joined the army as Cadet in
1804 and was made Lieut* 17 July 1805.
45
Serial
number.
Date.
(2)
BELLARY DISTRICT— con*.
Name. Inscription.
(3) (4)
BELLARY CANTONMENT C E METER Y — cont.
1285
6th Dec.
1813.
Cyrus Edward
Trapaud.
128f> 3rd Apr.
1815.
1287
16th Sep.
1816.
1288 10th May
1819.
1289 10th Nov.
1819.
John Birkrtt
William Fordyck
Henry Wilkinson . .
1290 16th Nov.
1819.
1291 9th June
1820.
1292 15th Dec.
1825.
1293 5th April
1826
Lieut. Cyrus Edward Trapaud, of Engineers, aged 24
years.
Superintending Engineer of the station and only son of Major
General Elisha Trapaud, Chief Engineer to the Madras Govern-
ment. He was Cadet in 1807 and Lieut. Jan. 13, 1810. Cyrus
Trapaud, his uncle, was Colonel of the 52nd Foot. He
died April 24, 1801. Capt. Thomas Briggs R.N. married Jan.
27, 1814, Miss Isabella Trapaud, youngest daughter of Major-
General Elisha Trapaud and Lieut. C. A. Elderton, 2nd Batt.
9th Begt., N.I., married March 15, 1814, Mies Mary Trapaud the
second daughter.
Passengers per Charles *MilUt, Jan. 22, 1816: — Lieut. -Gen).
Trapaud, late Chief Engineer. Mrs. and Miss Trapaud.
Lieut. John Birkbtt, of the 1st Batt., 7th Regt., N.I.
Monument erected by his brother office^.
He was Cadet in 1804 and Lieut. Aug. 31, 1805.
Lieut. William Fordyce, aetatis suae XXVIII. This pyra-
mid was erected by his brother officers of the 84th Regt.
Henry Wilkinson, Captain in H.E.I.C.'s Service, and Major
of Brigade in these Districts, aged 33 years.
Caroline Travers . .
Thomas Hadaway . .
Alexander Stewart.
George Perks
Samuel Ibretson . .
Capt. Henry John Wilkinson joined the army as Cadet in
was Lieut. 20th July 1801 and Capt. March 27, 1810.
1800,
Caroline, eldest daughter of the late P. Travers, Esq.,
aged 19 years. Tomb erected by her uncle Capt.
J. J. A. Willows, 2nd Batt., 16th Regt., as a memorial
of her many virtues.
P. Travers was Surgeon to T.R.H. the Dukes of Kent and Clarence.
He married Mary Frances and was Physician at Lisbon where
his sons John Benward (M. C. S.) and George Francis (M.C.S.)
were baptized on July 8, 1773 and July 24, 1770.
At St. Thome 22 Doc, 1817, the Lady of Lieut. JefTeryJ. A.
Willows, 10th Regiment, Native Infantry, gave birth to a
daughter. Jeffory Willows was Cadet in 1804, Lieut. July 17,
1805, Capt. Nov. 15, 1818 and Major Sopt. 17, 1827. He was
invalided Dee. 18, 1829 in India and retired June 28, 1832.
Georgiana, wife of Lieut. John Willows, 25th N.I., died at Madras,
23rd April 1816 aged 24 and is buried in St. Mary's Cemetery.
John Willows was a Cadet in 1805 and Liout. Dec. 27, 1800.
He died Aug. 21, 1817, at the Isle of France (Mauritius).
(AtBellary Lieut. Thomas Hadaway 12th Native Infantry
Sub- Assistant Commissary General).
He joined the army as Cadet in 180(1. was Lieut. April 0. 1810.
(In Camp near Bellary Captain Alexander Stewart of
Stenton 3rd Native Infantry).
He joined the Madras Army as Cadet in 17!M), was Lieut. December
15, 1800 and Captain March 18, 1809.
Lieut. George Perks of the 23rd Regiment . W.L.I. , aged 23
years.
He married, July 27th, 1824, Rose Eliza, youngest daughter of the
late Charles Boddam, B.C.S. He joined the army as Cadet in
1819 an 1 was Lieut. Aug. 22, 1820.
Samuel Ibbetson, Esq., of H.E.I.C., Madras Civil Service,
aged 39 years.
He joined as writer in 1802, was Sheriff of Madras in 1819, and
subsequently Judge of Bellary.
46
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
1294
1295
12th Nov.
1826.
17th Feb.
1827.
.96 20th Oct.
1827.
1297 10th Aug.
1829.
1298 4th Apr.
1831.
1299
1300
1304
1305
1306
1307
130
2nd June
1832.
8th Feb.
1833.
1301 12th Feb.
1833.
1302 30th Mar.
1833.
1303 29th April
1833.
12th June
1833.
18th July
1833.
24th July
1833.
8th Oct,
1833.
5th Mar.
1834.
BELLARY DISTRICT — cont.
Name. Inscription.
(3) (4)
BELLARY CANTONMENT CEMETERY— cont.
Jambs Rayk
Nicholas Browne
James Frasbr
James Taylor
Edward
Snow.
Winterton
W. McDonald
James Raye, Paymaster, H.M.'s 41st Regiment, aged 66
years.
Captain N. Browne, H.M.'s 4 1st Regiment, aged 39 years.
Lieut. James Fraser, Quarter-master, Paymaster, and
Interpreter, Uth Regiment, N.I., who was killed
in a duel at Bellary. He was brave, generous, and sincere
and much liked and esteemed by his brother officers, by
whom this tomb was erected. This tribute to his memory
was placed hero by his friend Major-General Hugh Fraser,
commanding the Cedod Districts, 1832.
He joined the army as Cadet in 1817 and was Lieut. Nov. 11,
1818.
Lieut.-Colonel James Taylor, H.M.'s 48th Regiment, aged 4C>
years.
Colonel Edward Winterton Snow, Companion of the Bath,
an officer eminently distinguished for high military bearing
and gallantry. He commanded and led the Rifle Corps to
the charge at the memorable battle of Mahidpoor, and Was
conspicuously engaged in the battles of Assayo and Argaum.
ob. IV April MDCCCXXXI. Act XLTX.
This monument stands in a line with the memorials to Lieutenant -
Colonel Taylor (1829), Captain Browne (1827), and Paymaster
Raye (1826). Thin row of four obelisks in the most conspicuous
object in the cemetery (See No. 2724). He joined the army as
Cadet in 1797 and was Colonel June 5, 1829.
Elizabeth, his relict, died at Madras, April 16, 1855.
Brevet Captain William Macdonald, His Majesty's 55th
Regiment, who died at Madras. Tomb erected by his brother
officers.
Alexander Campbell Alexander Campbell, Esq., of Ballochyle, Argyllshire,
Ensign H.M.'s 55th Foot, died of spasmodic cholera, aged 20
years and 6 months. Tomb erected by his mother.
Kdward de Warren, his brother ofticor (ace No. 879), describe*
his .seizure at the mess-table in a most romantic way in his book
'* L'Inde Anglaise."
Albert Frend, Captain, His Majesty's 55th Regiment, aged
41) years.
. . William Fenton Wake, Lieutenant in His Majesty's 55th
Regiment. Tomb erected by his brother officers.
Albert Frend
W. F. Wake
W. H. Champion
Bkll Craiote
G. H. Rutledoe
Francis Boyd
J. W. Brockman
George Huddlestine
Thomas.
William Henry Champion, Captain in His Majesty's 55th
Regiment of Foot, aged 38 years.
Bell, the beloved wife of P. Rdmonstone Craioie, Major in
His Majesty's 55th Regiment, aged 34 years.
Surgeon G. H. Rutledge. His Majesty's 55th Regiment, who
died of cholera at Tripasore, aged 41 years.
Captain Francis Boyd, His Majesty's 55th Regiment, who
died of cholera, aged 33 years.
J. W. Brockman, Esq., Captain, His Majesty's 55th Regi-
ment, who died of cholera, aged 38 years, sincerely
regretted.
Captain George Huddlestine Thomas, commanding 7th
Regt., Light Cavalry, who was killed by a fall from his
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horse on the morning of the 5th March, aged 37 years.
This tomb was erected over his remains by the officers of
the Regt., as a mark of their esteem and regard.
He joined the Cavalry in 1817, was Lieut. Sep. I, 1828 and Capt.
February 7, 1832.
1309 3rd April Charles Douglas Ensign CD. Babington, 31st Light Infantry, who fell at the
1834. Babington. assault on Buck in Coorg, aged 22 years. Tomb erected
by the officers of his Regiment.
He was Cadet in 1828 and Ensign .Jan. 11, 1832. Coorg wai
conquered in 1834 by a force under Brigadier Patrick
Lindsay, C. B. The assault on Buck is described as follows by
Mr. Lewis Rice in the third volume of his " Gazetteer of Mysore
and Coorg" (Page 179): 44 The Northern column, under tho
Command of Colonel C Waugh, was composed of one brigade
tf-pr. guns from Bcllary, 300 rank and file and headquarters
H.M. 5f>th Regt., N.I., 31st Regt., L.I., rifle Company of 24th
Regt., N.I., and 200 Sappers and Miners. It marched on the
1st April from Hosakota to Sanivarsante. On passing the
Coorg boundary at the river Hemavati, the enemy's advanced
posts had ret reated and no molestation was offered until the
force reached Kodlipet, where an armed body of 200 men occu-
pied an entrenched high ground, but on their flanks being turned
they speedily fell back, and the advanced guard of the English
encountered only one more slight opposition at Mudravalli,
which was as speedily overcome. A far different resistance the
troops met on the following day, when they were to join the
Eastern column at Haringi. They had scarcely proceeded a
few hundred yards beyond their encamping ground, when they
found the road blockaded with felled trees, which rendered
their progress exceedingly difficult and slow. As the column
approached a village in a wood near the base of the pass in which
the enemy's principal position was situated, a feeble lire was
opened, which was readily silenced. But the stockade, known
as tho Buck Stockade, was exceedingly strong ; outside, protec-
ted by thick bamboos and trees and surrounded with a deep
ditch, and inside, built of mud walls faced with stones and pierced
with innumerable loop holes which commanded the approaches
in ovory direction. The intrepid Coorgs who hold it were
commanded by Madanta Appachu (the late Head Sheristadar
who died in 187ft), a tine old Coorg, of tall stature and martial
boaring, who ever since the British accession, was a most loyal
and devoted servant of Government. Determined to carry
it by assault as the stockade barred their advance, the troops
• under Major Bird of the 31st Light Infantry as held officer of
the day attempted every means of attack for four hours and
a half, during which they were exposed to a most severe and
raking fire ; but in vain. A misdirected flank movement of
H.M. 55th Regt. under Colonel Mill proved equally unsuccessful.
Colonel Mill (See No. 418) was shot dead on the spot, likewiso
Ensigns Robertson of tho 9th N.I. and Babington of tho 31st
N.I. In this most unfortunate affair about 48 were killed, includ-
ing the 3 officers, and 1 18 wounded. "
1310 7th Mar. Margaret Simson Margaret Simson, wife of Hector Macqtjarie, Esq.,
1836. " Macquarie. His Majesty's 55th Regiment, aged 23 years and 3 months.
Deeply and sincerely lamented by her disconsolate husband
and a numerous and kind circle of friends. She was a duti-
ful and affectionate daughter, a faithful, loving and sincerely
affectionate wife, a true and sincere friend and had it pleased
the Almighty to have spared the mother and babe, would
have proved herself an indulgent and fond parent. The
trifling tribute to her inestimable worth is erected by her
bereaved husband.
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1311 9th Oct. William George Captain W. G. T. Lewis, 46th Regt., N.I.,
1839. Teedenntok Lewis. and Deputy Assistant Adjutant -General at Beliary, who-
died of cholera at Kodanoor with the field force under Major-
General Wilson, C. B., leaving a deeply afflicted but resign-
ed widow to mourn his loss. This tablet is erected as a
mark of respect by his brother Staff Officers in the Ceded
Districts.
He joined the army as Cadet in 1819, was Lieut . Sep. 4, 1823 and
Capt. July 13, 1835. Brigadier John Bell, Commanding Beliary,
and Assistant Surgeon Robert Martin Davis died at the same
camp, but have no monuments to their memory.
1312 14th Sept. James Considine • . Lieut. James Considine, only son of Major-General Considine,
1844. K. H., aged 24 years.
1313 18th Mar. James Morris .. James Morris, Esq., cotton planter of Natchez, Adam's
1846. county, Mississippi, U.S.A.
The condition of cotton was so serious in 1838 that, in order to
improve tho quality of the crop, twelve experienced planters
from the Southern States of America were located in the Westorn
Presidency and supplied with seeds and agricultural improve-
ments. Morris was probably one of these. The experiment did
not prove successful.
1314 16th Feb. Daniel Alexander Lieut. -Colonel Daniel Alexander Fenninu, 1st Regt.,
1852. Penning. L.C., aged 59 years. This tomb is erected by tho Officers of
the 1st, 3rd and 5th Rogts., L.C., which corps he severally
commanded, as a token of their respect .
1315 4th July Ralph Horsley .. Ralph Horsley, Esq., of the Madras Civil Service. Born
1856. at Courtallum on the 4th July 1831. Murdered at Beliary.
where he was Acting Head Assistant Collector.
He was the twin son of John Horsley, M.C.S., 1817-51. The murder
took place in the whist room of the present Beliary Club, then a
private house, into which the deceased and his younger brother,
W. D. Horsley, a student at college, had recently moved. The
situation was lonely, the house standing by itself and being com-
manded on three sides by hills. On tho night of tho July 4th,
at about half past twelve, Mr. Ralph Horsley was heard to call
to his sorvants sleeping in the verandah, and was found a fow
minutes later lying dead in his writing room, which opened out
of the bed room. An office box was then missing from its usual
place under the cot, and was subsequently discovered broken
open on the rocks some 300 ^ards away, tho only object stolen
being the silver handle of a seal. On an examination of the
deceased's body, it was seen that the wound, a stab in the back,
must havo been sufficient to cause instantaneous death. No
trace of the murderers was discoverable. The peons and servant*
had apparently heard nothing to attract their attention, although
four of them were sleeping in the front verandah of the house.
An inquest was held and an exhaustive enquiry instituted by Mr.
C. R. Polly, the Collector, but the crime long remained a mystery.
It seemed probable that robbery and not murder was the motive
of the intruders, and that Mr. Horsley was stabbed while endeavour-
ing to prevent the theft of his month's pay. Several persons were
arrested at the time on suspicion, but were subsequently discharged.
At last in 1804 a man, about to be hanged at Delhi for another
crime, made a full confession of Horsley's murder, giving such
details and so correct a description of the treasury then in the
Fort and of Horsley 's house that the Collector and Horsley 's
brother William had no doubt that his statement was true and
had cleared up the whole secret. Tho man was a Khaikare
named Hunoora and his brother Hunmunta was the robber whom
Horsley secured. The intruders were 3 in all. Hunoora con.
fessed ; when and where is not stated. See Adam's u The Indian
Criminal '* (London, J. Milne '09).
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1316 6th Nov. Jamks Brown . . James Brown, Lieut.-Colonol, H.M.'a 43rd Rogt., and Brigadier
jg5fl Commanding Bellary, aged 59 years.
1317 28th July Richard Cotton Richard Cotton Lewin, Madras Civil Service.
1858. Lewin.
His wife, Mary Eliza, died at Ootacamund, Juno 10, 1858.
There woro four other Lowing in tho Civil Service: Thomas, 1770
to 1792 ; Malcolm, 1815 to 1846, died March 5th, 1869 ; Frederick,
Mortimer, 1818 to 1817, died Juno 17th, 1877 ; and Richard
B.C.S., 1809-17.
1318 5th July James Smith Baird. Liout-Col. James Smith Buun, Major Royal Madras
jg72 Artillery.
TOMB AT THE EAST FORT GATE, BELLARY.
TOMB OF A FRENCH Under the wall at the East Fort (Jato Rtanda a tomb, said to cover the
131^ l/OJ FnGINFER remains of a Fronoh Engineer. The tradition is that when iiyder
Ali took possession of Bollary from its Voligar in 1769, he omployed
the sorvicos of this man to build tho upper and lowor Fort, but at tho
completion of tho work hangod him near the Fort Cate, because it
was discovered that tho opposite rock was tho higher and commanded
the Fort. A few years ago, when a new road leading to tho gato was
under construction, the Mahomedans of Bellary mado a successful
appeal for the preservation of this grave, saying that it contained the
remains <>f a saint of thoir own faith. The tomb is certainly built in
Mussalmnn fashion, and some doubt is thrown on the legond of the
French Kngineer's fate by tho fact that a similar story is told of other
fortresses built by Hydor or his son. For instance, tho tale oonnected
with tho fort at Hosur in Salem district may be cited. It runs as
follows: Captain Hamilton (or according to others Stevenson), a
British officer, then in captivity, is said to have been employed by
Tippu Sultan to construct tho fortifications, with the assistance of a
midshipman, also a captivo. Unfortunately, tho position chosen
happened to bo overlooked by a neighbouring hill, arid Tippu on
learning of this mistake, at onco issued orders for the execution of tho
two prisoners. Tho Englishmen had, however, during their stay at
Hosur, been on very friendly terms with tho inhabitants of the placo ;
and so great was tho sympathy evinced for thorn that no one could
bo found willing to put them to death, or oven to lend a weapon for
the purpose. Aftor much difficulty, the only implement that could
be procure .[ was a small shoemaker's knife, and with this instrument
the prisoners woro boheaded. Hamilton, stipulating that the younger
man should dio first. Tradition adds that, at tho time of execution,
a native maistry, who had long workod under Hamilton, begged him
to leave him soruo memento. Hamilton had nothing to give the man
but an old pair of compasses. Somo thirty yo.irs ago an English
officer, while visiting Hosur, was struck by observing a native
carpenter at work with a pair of compasses (an unusual circumstance)
and asked him where ho had obtained them. The workman answered
that tho compassos were an heirloom in his family, and had been
given to one of his ancestors by somo European Officer, pointing in
proof of hi^ assertion to the letters J.II. scratched on ono side. The
story goes on to say that in a field named by this workman, two
skeletons were found, which bore marks of decapitation. It is a
historical fact, as narrated in Thornton's " History of India,"
Volume II, pages 439, 440, that Hamilton and two other prisoners
wero massacred at Hosur on tho approach of Lord Comwallis' army
in 1791. A thrilling tale on this subject under the title of «' a Pair of
Compasses " appeared from the pen of Mr. D. 8. White in the
" Madras Athenaeum " about the year 1875. It may be of interest
to add that the bridge in Madras known as Barber's bridge was
oiiginally named Hamilton's bridge from the Engineer who built it.
The natives called it Ambuton's bridge, and, in course of time, the
name being supposed to be synonymous with "Ambattan," the
vol. n— 7
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TOMB AT THE EAST FORT GATE, BELLARY — cont.
Tamil word for a barber, the title was transferred into the present one
of Barber's bridge.
" The sliding rock " near the steps leading up to Hyder's fort on tho
Bellary Rook, is one of tho chief attractions of the place. It is a
channel cut into the solid granite by rain water, rubbod smooth and
polished fine by generations of Bellary children sliding down it in
immense delight, and paying dearly for the pleasure at tho hands of
those who had the mending of their clothes ! But of lato " oldsters "
as well as youngsters have fallen victims to the fascination of gliding
down this rocky chute. Every evening crowds of Indian men and
women may be seen indulging in this pastime till tho rocky
surroundings ring with their mirth. Some of these people, not con-
tent with a few hours of the sport, encamp in the adjacent empty
godown, that was once the residence of General Munro and spend a
whole day in sliding.
HOSPET.
1320 1854 William Clavering. William Clavering, aged 22 years.
The circumstances of his death are as follows : Ho landod from
England in May 1853, and, in the latter part of 1854, was engaged
in laying the Telegraph line from Bellary to Secunderabad.
When on tho point of joining the working party, which was spanning
the Tungabhadra Kiver some few miles above Hampasaugar, he
was attacked by cholera and died in the Hospet travellers*
bungalow. He was a man of good birth, and closoly connoctod
with the family of Claverings in Durham, and had he lived a few
months longer, would, it is said, have succeeded to a Baronetcy.
A short time after his death, a Government enquiry was instituted
and a report sent in by Mr. Brunton, at that time Superintendent
of Telegraphs. Mr. Jones was present at the time of the death ;
and Mr. C. Dawson, lately store-keeper at Kurnool, was also a
member of the working party. An old man of the Korava caste,
who dug the grave, was alive at Hospet in 1894. According to
him, four Europeans, who were staying at Hospet, wont to Huligi
(in the Nizam's dominions) to see the shrine of the deity. While
there, one of the party was attacked by cholera, and returned to
Hospet very ill. Ho died at one o'clock in the travellers' bungalow
and was buried in his hat and clothes under a banyan tree. Local
rumour has it that he tried to prevent the hook-swinging festival
at Huligi, and was visited by the wrath of the goddess in conse.
quence. In 1893 a slab was placed over the spot indicated by
the grave digger, in an open piece of ground some 40 yards to the
south of the travellers' bungalow, beneath two banyan trees.
RAMANDROOG.
(British Sanitarium in Sandur State.)
1321 10th May Charles James Lieut.-Colonel Charles James Villikrs, 74th Highlander.^
1862. Villiers. aged 39 years. Erected by his brother officers.
A handsome monument surrounded with railings.
1322 17th April Arthur Hathaway. Arthur Hathaway, Esq., Madras Civil Service, aged 45
1866. years.
He died in his bullock-bandy near Yettinahatti, on the road
from Bellary to Ramandroog, having been attacked by fever
some days previously. His service dates from 1839, and
he had been Collector of Bellary sinco 1859. He was
the son of William Silas Hathaway of Langley Grove,
Colnbrook, Bucks and received his education at Sherborne
School, which he left in 1836 for the E.I. College,
Haileybury.
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ADONI.
1323 27th Jan. Thbolinda Pbreira. Em nome do Ns. Sr. Amen. Aqui jaz Thbolinda db Matos
1717. mulher quo foy de capitao Joaquim Jozbb Pbbbira da
na$ao Portugueza, hoje 27de Janeiro de 1717 annos.
Pede-hum Padre Nosso e uma have Maria pela sua alma.
" In the name of our Lord Amen. Here lies Theolinda de
Matos, who was wife to Captain J. J. Pereira, of the
Portuguese nation. (Burled) today January 27th, 1717."
Portuguese ladies, on marrying, formerly retained their
father's surname and did not assume that of their hus-
band's. The practice is still in vogue in remote country
places in Portugal and among the natives of Goa.
TOL. II — 7 A
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number.
Date. Namo. Inscription.
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MANGALORE CEMETERY.
J 324 3rd Nov. J. R. Stuart (At Mangalore Lieut. J. R. Stuaut, Adjutant and Gunner to
1799. the 3rd Regiment Native Infantry.)
1325 29th Nov. John Carnac In memory of Brigadier General John Carnac, formerly
1800. Commander in Chief of the Forces in Bengal and afterwards
second in Council at this Presidency. He distinguished
himself by the important victory gained over t he Shahzaddah
in the year 1701, and in both stations his zeal for the public
service, integrity and disinterested conduct were equally
conspicuous. He died at Mangalore the 29th November
1800, aged 84 years.
His father was probably Captain Carnac or Canine, a Huguenot
refugee, who died in Dublin in 17f>(j, aged 91. Ho had a brother
Scipio (un traced) and by a first rnarriago in India with Klizabeth
Woojoston a spinster (in. Nov. 7, 1765, d. 17(17) had an only son
" Master Bobby " who died in 1709 in London of a doso of physic
given to him by Sutton, the inoculator. On April 6, 1 703, Poter
Amyatt Esq. " of Council married another Miss VVooleston Maria.
She romarried another Amyatt. As John Carnac was born
seemingly in 1710, he can hardly have boen a son of the Peter
Carnac, who in 1710 married at St. Antholins Adriana Lolauto
and was perhaps identical with tho Peter Carnat (sic) from
Meyrnis, naturalizod in 109S. John Carnac commenced his
military servico in the 39th Foot (Primus in Iudis) und being in
India when that regiment was ordered home in 17. r >8, was admitted
into tho Company's service with tho rank of Captain. * f The
officers who remained in India after the departure of Adlercron's
Iiogt. to England were Captain John Carnac, Ensigns Joseph
Adnott and Martin York (1758). All t hose officers joined the
Bengal army with a stop in rank " (Orine). Carnac was early
known as the friend and associate of the Callant Lord
Clivo. It is assorted by some that John Carnac l< had been
Clivo's Socond-in-Command at Plassoy." Mos?t emphatically
Carnac had not been anything of the kind. At that time ho
w r as a very junior Lieutenant in H.M.'s 39th Foot, and on the
day Plassey was fought, John Carnac was in the Carnat ic, with a
field force under the Command of Major Fordo. Clivo's Socond-
in-Command at Plassey was Major James Kilpatrick. The
three Companies of the 39th present at Plassey were under the
Command of Captains Archibald Grant, Eyro Coot© (afterwards
Commander-in-Chief in India) and Nicholas Wellcr. In
1700, when a Major, John Carnac succoeded Colonol
John Caillaud in command of tho army at Tatna
and on January 15th, 1701, won an important victory
noar Bohar over tho imperial troops of Delhi and a French contin-
gent under M. Law, who, with fiftoon officers and fifty of his men,
wa« takon prisoner. Tho courtesy with which the captives
were treated appears to have greatly impressed the natives,
who had at that time but little acquaintance with European
usages in war. Tho author of the Seir Mutakharin remarks
upon this incident : ** Nothing can bo more modest or becoming
than the behaviour of these strangers whether in the heat of
battle or in the pride of success." Carnac was appointed a Briga-
dier-General in May 1704. Tho following year he drove the
Mahrattas across the Jumna. His name with Clive's is signed
to tho Allahabad treaty of August 10th, 1705. Returning to
England in 1707 he was elected M.P. for Leominster. Four
years later he was again in India and rendered effective aid to
Lord Clive in quelling a mutiny of the English officers in Bengal.
In 1776 he was appointed Second Member of Council at Bombay
and successor to the chair. While still filling that office in 1778,
he was named one of the civil committee with the army who
early in the following year executed the unfortunate convention
of Wargaum. For his participation in this affair he was dismissed
the service, but remained in India till his death.
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number. Dat *' Name. Inscription.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
MANGA LORE CEMETERY- -cent.
Tho officer who ** conducted the opperations against Sindhia which
resulted in the capture of Gwalior in 1780 " is not Carnac as
stated by some. The officer who conducted the oporatione
against Sindhia (though not thoso resulting in the capture of
Gwalior, which woro carried out entirely by Major Popham), was
Colonel Jacob Camae, who succeeded Popham at the end of
1780, and had the credit of the signal defeat inflicted on
Sindhia on tho 24th March, 1781. Cainac (of whom there ie a
reminiscence in Camac Stroot) was a real soldier.
When in Parliament, Car^ao had married Miss Eliza Hivett, a
colcbratol court boauly and tlie daughter of Mr. Thomas
Hivott, M.P. for Derby. Her portrait was painted bj' Reynolds
and now hangs in tho Wallace Collection. It Is esteemed on©
of the finest of his works and an oxcellent engraving of it appears
in tho second volume of Mr. James Douglas' book on Bombay.
Mrs. Carnac diod at Jiroach, .January isth, 1780, aged 28.
Moinorial tablets to herself and her husband wore erected in
.Bombay Cathedral by .lames Rivott, hor brother, who arrived
in India in 177G and rose to bo Member of the Bombay Council.
He diod in 1803, agod 43. After his brother-in law's death he
had assumed the name of Carnac. The General had left him all
his property, which was considerable. His son Sir James Kivoti
Carnac (1785-1840), originally an officor in tho Madras Native
Infantry, was twice Chairman of the East India Tompany, M.P.,
and baronet, and Governor of Bombay, 1838 41. Sir J. Camac's
bust, subscribed for in 1841 and despatched in 1840, lay for three
years forgotten in a packing case under the Bombay Town Hall
8 tail's and was only discovered by accident. Samuel Milers in his
" Canara Past and Present " writes most gratingly 44 To the
East of the Cantonment is tho Protestant Cemetery ; among the
osseous remains horo deposited is that of Brig. Gen. John
Carnac."
There is a tablet in Marylebone Church to Henrietta, daughter
of James Fisher of Groat Yarmouth and relict of James liivett
Carnac of Derby died of K.J.C.S. and Member of Council,
Bombay from 1790 to 1802, died 23rd December 1837, aot. 72.
1320 18th Oct. Benjamin Samy .. (Captain Benjamin Samy of the 8th Native Infantry.)
1802.
1327 15th Sept. John Mackay , Captain John Mackay of the 1st Battalion, r>th Regt. M.N.I. ,
180(5. aged 28 years.
Ho was a cadet in 1799, Lieut, on Jan. 1, 1800. Lieut. Bond, Artil-
lery, married Mrs. A. Mackay, widow of Capt. Mackay on Dec. 1 1,
1810. (Asiatic Journal, July 1817.)
1328 24th April Thomas Martin Rich. Thomas Marttn Rich, aged 2f> years.
1807.
1329 9th Oct. Thomas Cosmo Captain Thomas Cosmo Gordon, of the 1st Battalion 5th
1809. Gordon. Regt. M.N.T., aged 38 years.
He married Miss Margaret Mackay, November 1st, 1800. He
joined tho army as cadet in 1797, was Lieut. Nov. 27, 1798 and
Captain July 17, 1805.
1330 12th Sept. James Fawcett . . * (Captain James Fawcett of H.M. 25th Light Dragoons.)
1813.
1331 24th Mar. Charles Cowan . . Charles Cowan, late Lieutenant of the H.C.'s Marine on the
1814, Bombay Establishment, aged 33 years.
He was Assistant to the acting Conservator of Forests in Kanara
and Master Attendant of the Port of Mangaloro.
1332 28th Jan. William John Jack- Lieutenant W. J. Jackson, 12th L.I.
1817. son.
He was a eadet in 1806 and Lieut. 6th April 1810.
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1333 23rd Feb. John Gennys
1818.
1334 30th April Charles Foot
1818.
Lieut. -Colonel John Gennys, late commanding 1st Batfc.
5th M.N.I. Erected by his brother officers.
He joined tho army as cadet in 1795, was Ensign March 15, 1796,
Lieut. Oct. 21, 1797, Capt. Juno 27, 1804 and Major Mar. 8, 1810.
Lieutonant Charles Foot of the Royal Navy died on board
H.M.'s Mimhn at sea, aged 24 years.
1335 10th May Mathew Boles and Erected in memory of Mathew Boles, late Commander of
1820. Family. the ship Fyz-ool-Rehmane fl 9 aged 45 years ; of Margaret
his wife, aged 31 years ; and of Thomas and Isabella Ann,
their children, who all perished in the said vessel, when she
foundered at sea off Caup on this coast, on the 10th May.
There is now a lighthouse at Caup.
1336
24th Oct.
1823.
Elizabeth Sheffield.
1337 17th May Michael
1824. Harris.
Elizabeth, wife of William Sheffield, Esq., of the Hon ? blo
Company's Civil Service on the Madras Establishment, aged
25 years.
She was a Miss Proud, married April 19th, 1823 at Mangalore.
At Bellary, 17th Aug. 1812, Major Robt. M'Dowell, Comrag. 1st
Batt. 24th N.I. married Miss Shoffield. William Sheffield had
also another daughter born at Calicut in 1815 (Asiatic Journal,
Jan. 1816) and a son born at Tellicherry on Nov. 12, 1817 (Asiatic
Journal, July 1818). His first wife by whom he had these children
died at Tellicherry on 3rd Deo. 1817 (Asiatic Journal, July 1818).
Thomas Sacred to tho memory of the Honorable Michael Thomas
Harris, second son of Lord Harris, and for many years
Collector and Magistrate of Canara. He was born on the
13th of September 1783, and departed this life on the 17th
of May 1824, aged 40 years and 4 (sic) months univorsally
respected and esteemed.
Son of the first Lord Harris, Baron of Mysore and Seringapatam
(1746-1829). Ho had a daughter born about 1816 (Asiatic
.1 ournal, Feb. 1816). His sister married S. R. Lushington, Governor
of Madras from 1827 to 1832. His son George Anstruther Harris
joined tho Madras Civil Service (1830-66) and was for several
years Judge of Mangalore. The third Lord Harris, his elder
brother's son, was Governor of Madras from 1854 to 1859.
Balmatta, the well-known hill in Mangalore, is said by some to
have named after the family seat in Kent " Belmont.' * It
was formerly the Collector's residence and cutcherry, until sacked
by tho Coorg rebels in 1837. The house and grounds were subse-
quently made over to the Basel Mission by Mr. H. M. Blair, the
Collector. In July 1815, killed in action before New Orleans
Charles the third son of Genl. G. Harris of Belmont, Kent,
Captain in H.M. 86 Regiment.
1338 14th Jan. Henry Nealb
1825.
1339 7th Feb. Humphry Ewino
1825.
. . Ensign Henry Neale, aged 19 years.
Second son of Daniel Neale, Attorney of Madras, who died
Dec. 8, 1827 (see No. 2068). He was cadet in 1821 and Ensign
April 27, 1822. He had a son born on May 10, 1816 (Asiatic
Journal, Dec. 1816).
. . Lieutenant Humphry Ewino, 50th N.I., aged 20 years
He joined the army in 1812, Ensign July 6, 1813 and Lieut. Mar.
30, 1816.
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number Date. Name. Inscription.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
MANGALORE CEMETERY — eont.
1340 3rd Sept. Jane Mary Locke . . Jane Mary, eldest daughter of Capt. and Mrs. Locke of the
1825. 50th N.I., aged 2 years.
Thomas Locke, Lieut, and Adjutant 2nd Bat. 25th Kegt. N.I.,
married, Juno 8th, 1822, Indiana Laura, daughter of J. Shaw,
Surgeon on the Bengal establishment. She died at Manan-
toddy in Wynaad on 17th Aug. 1827. Lieut. Thomas Locke,
7th Kegiment, N.I., married Miss Helena F. F. De Sadlo, daughter
of the late Lieut. -Col. Sir F. De Sadlo of the Dutch Service on
22nd May 1820. She died at Quilon 12th Dec. 1821 .
1341 9th Aug. Jane Babington . . Jane, wife of John Babington, Esq., Principal Collector and
2827. Magistrate of Canara, with their twin infant son.
She was the daughter of Archibald Spiers, Surgeon. There are
four other Babingtons on the rolls of old Hailoybury : Stophen,
Bombay, C.S., 1807 to 1822, who died at Thana ; Stephen, Junior,
1838 to 1846, who died at Bombay; William Henry, Madras,
C.S., 1821 to 1849, who died September 17th, 1867 ; and Benjamin
Guy, M.C.S., 1812 to 1822.
John Babington, C.S., marriod Miss Eliza Roebuck Dec. 1, 1808.
Babington was the uncle of Lord Macaulay.
1342 28th Mar. Edward Croft Green- Edward Croft Greenway of the Madras Civil Service, aged
1828. way. 49 years.
Godfather of Edward Croft Greenway Thomas, C.S. (1851-1882),
the brother of H. S. ThomaH, who was for many years Collector of
South Canara. Mr. Greenway married, May 14th, 1805, the
daughter of Sir Benjamin Sulivan, Judge of the High Court,
whose wife was a Miss Eliza Dent. E. B. Thomas, C.S. (1824-
62), married Greenway's daughter Isabella Margaret, July 12th
1827.
1343 23rd Oct. Margaret Somervil- Margaret Somerville, wife of John Walker, Esq., H.C.
1830. le Walker. Civil Service.
An imposing monument. She was the daughtor of W. Allan of
Loith.
On Sept. 3, 1852, Anna Maria, widow of the late Maj.-Genl
G. W. Walker, H.M. 21st Fusiliers, died at Mangalore, aged 74
years.
1344 23rd Mar. Henrietta Moulton Henrietta Mouljon Noble, agod 21 years. A rose soon
1832. Noble fades, but who that once inhaled never forgets its sweotness
— H. N. Noble.
Major Horatio Nelson Noble was in the 40th N.I., and died at
Jaulnah, July 1 4th, 1850, aged 47 and his daughter, Fanny
Charlotte Emily on July <), 1850, aged 20 months. Mary Greir
his oldest daughter was marrid to Middloton Oolvile, Capt H M*
43rd L.I.J on Sept. 4, 1856. .
1345 7th June Robert Russell .. Robert Russell, Esq., Surgeon of this Zillah.
1832.
1346 30th Jan. Charles Maitland C. M. Bushby, Esq., Acting Judge of Canara, aged 36 years
1835. Bushby. and 4 months. Born 29th September 1798. Erected by
bis widow and relatives.
He married, July 14th, 1819, Mary Catherine, daughtor of Colonel
Andrew McCally. His parents were William Buahby, H.E.
I.C.S., and Maria Camac (see No. 1149). C. M. Bushby one of
the advocates of the Recorder's Court died at Madras, Jan. 6
1799.
1347 9th Jan. Alex. Hoy Jeffries. (At Mangalore Captain Alexander Hoy Jeffries 2nd Native
1836. Infantry.)
He joined the army as Cadet in 1819. He was Lieut. July 1, 1823
and Captain April 3, 1833.
1348 20th Oct. Frank Levy . • Frank Levy, C.S., aged 28 years.
1894.
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SOUTH KANARA DISTRICT-^on*.
Serial Date, Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
CORDEL CHURCH.
1349 11th Duo. Alexandeh Dubois. Boa tarn rosurrootionom expeotans sub hoc marmoro quiesoit
1877. Alexander Dubois, Rot horn Archidiooo in Gallia oriundus
annis XII miraculoruin oodesiam in civitato Mangalorensi
rexit. Fuit vir simplex ct rectus ac timens Doum, omni
virtutum genere cornmcndabilis, bonum testimonium ha bens
otiam ab iis qui fori 8 sunt, oinnos boni pastoris vices explevit.
Haoo occlosia ot quidquid late longeque conspicitur illius
pecunia magis an tern procibus oxstructum fuit. Usque ad
finem laborans viribus deficiens, mentis dives, coelo maturus,
placido decessit die Decerabris XI anno domini
MDCCCLXXVII retatis vero LXV1I1. Ab hac die illius
sepulturae locus, indesinonter ab ornni gente, ab infidelibus
otiam iuvisitur. Deurn pro illo aut per ilium rogaturi
aeeedunt ot plerumquo voti compotes recedunt. Ad per-
potuam mnmoriam huno lapidem ex oblationibus quotidianis
pocuniaquo cnllocta apud illius parochianos et amicus, amicus
moerens et mirans pouore curavit. In momoria aeterna
erit iustus. L.J). 8.
Tho 11 amicus moorens ot mirans " was Father Ladislaus. Father
Dubois, who is said to have boon related to tho family of Abbe
Dubois, mado tho building of Cordel Church tho work of his
lifetime, but died boforo it was finished though tho foundation
stone was laid on Sept. 11, 1873. It is now a deserted ruin, in
tho chancel of which its founder lies buried. Father Dubois
had acquired during his lifetime a widespread jeputufion for
sanctity, and the spot is visited to this day by numerous pilgrims
of all castes and creeds. Father Ladislaus Dos Lognes died
Nov. 21, 1888 without completing tho roofing of tho church.
" When Father Ladislaus was taken with ins last sickness ho was
brought from Cordel to St. Aloysius' College where ho lingered
about a week and then peacefully expired at 3 a.m. of November
21st. His body was exposed in tho College Hall during tho fore-
noon and part of the afternoon of tho same day, and then taken
to tho College Church where a funeral procession was formed
and the remains were borne to Cordel and deposited in the vault
under I he Chapel of "Our Lady of Sorrows." (St. Aloysius '
Col lego Magazine, Mangalore, Juno 1903. Vol. II, No. JO, pp.
307-8).
KONDAPORE.
1350 Undated . . . • me pos neste lug ah
pos tabic sva pigvka
avedo qe qe no etrak
a mtskh (j had k vetvka.
Inscription on an old stone. It has been deciphered by Rev. A. M.
Teixoira and roads as follows : l ' Quern mo pos neste lugar Pos
tamborn sua figura Avondo que quern no entrar A miseria grande
vontura." Tho whole is a verse, the last line being a common
saying in Portuguese. Tho slab must have been a gravestone
and the words moan " He who put mo in this place put also his
own figure. If there bo any one to enter it, his wretchedness
will turn out a great boon."
BUTKAL TOMBS.
(Butkal is 64 miles north of Mangalore.)
nsl 'Ust March George Wye .. Horn lyeth the body of George Wye merchant doc XXXI
1637 Mnmh Anno Dom. N.R.T. Christi Sal Mundi MDCXXXVII
1637.
v*K2 1st April Anto- Veen- Worthy. Hero lyeth the body of Anto-Vern- Worthy, merchant dec.
1637 lst A P ril A™ 10 Dom - N.R.T. Christi Sal Mundi
MDCXXXVII. 1637.
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CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
CHURCH AT THE LITTLE MOUNT.
This church contains a cave where St. Thomas is said to havo suffered martyrdom, and visitors are also shown the print of his
footsteps. Tho Little Mount owes its name to the Portuguese, who, with a view to distinguish it from tho Big Mount
(St. Thomas' Mount) where they had built a church on the Hill, called the former 44 Monte Picano." Thoro is a description
of it in Milne Rae's 41 Syrian Church in India " (1892).
The legend runs that Saint Thomas lived and preachod on tho Little Mount, hiding in a cave there when heathon persecutors
threatened him, until one day a Brahman pierced him with a lance from the little window of tho cave. A Brahmin's javelin
tears his holy broast, says Oamoens. Then ho nod to Groat Mount, two milos farther on to die ; stumbling as ho ran and
leaving giant hand and foot prints in the rock.
Another vorsion is givon by Alexander Hamilton who had spent thirty-five years, covering the reigns of William and Mary, Anne,
and George I, in trading betwoon the Eastern ports. '* When he saw thorn (his onomies) coming ho left his cave, and came
down in order to seek shelter sornowhoro else ; and at tho foot of the Mount, as a testimony that he had been there, he
stampod with his bare foot on a very hard stone, and left the print of it, which remains thero to this day, a witnoss against
those persecuting priests. Tho print of his foot is about sixteen inches long and in proportion, narrower at the hool and
broader at tho toes than the feet now in use among us." Wo are never able to judge of tho historical valuo of this account
for tho pleasuro which that 44 now in uso " gives us. It hints at such a comfortable powor of choice in those things.
A prettier, though perhaps a loss apostolic, story is the ono that Marco Polo repeats : he says that St. Thomas was accidentally
shot by a fowlor who mistook him for a peacock. But if that wore so what becomes of tho lance found by the Portuguese r
We nood to know whether the lanco was mado to fit the legend or the legond shaped to fit tho lance.
In any case both the hills oomo into the story, which is the reason why accounts of the Mount commonly begin with tho state-
ment, rather trito and puzzling to the reader : 44 Thero aro two Mounts, Little Mount and Big Mount."
Little Mount is not much moro than a rock, one of the stony hillocks of India lying beside the road on the left just where you
cross tho Adyar River on your way out to Big Mount.
A steep flight of stops leads to the little plateau on which tho chapel stands, built up against the face of the hill ; the chapel is
small and dark but in the tiny sanctuary thoro is just light enough for this inscription, paintod on the rock to be read : —
The Cave
where lay hid persecuted just before
being martyred by Rajah Mahadevan
King of Mylapuram A.D. 68
Thomas
one of the twolve, tho Great Apostle
of India. The very one who put his
fingers into the wounds of his Lord and God.
1353 1612 . . Statue of St. Thomas. Esta baluarte S.T. fes ANT. GSZ. De Athaidb a sua custa
no ano de 1612.
44 This statue of Saint Thomas did Antonio Gonsalves De Athaide
make at his own cost in the year 1612." Tho figure represents
St. Thomas raising his right hand in the attitude of benediction
and holding in hid left hand a carpenter's square. Three
sitos near Madras are connocted with the logend of St. Thomas.
They are the Cathedral of San Thome, which claims to possess
the apostle's grave ; the Little Mount, whero ho is said to have
been martyred ; and St. Thomas' Mount, on whose summit is
the church containing the famous inscribed oross. St. Thomas
and St. Bartholomew aro also said to havo preached Christianity
in Ceylon, and there is the still more curious tradition that Ceylon
had boon visitod and tho Christian faith introduced by the Eunuch
of Candace.
1354 1663 Khojah Margar .. (Translation from tho Armenian). This is tho tomb of Khoj ah
Margar, the son of Khojah David, in the year 1112 (of the
Armenian era corresponding to 1663 A.D.).
Epigraphica Indica, volume VI, part II, April 1900, contains a
facsimile of this inscription with the translation, "This is the
grave of Khojah David, the son of Khojah Margar.*' The proper
reading of the text according to Mr. Mesrovb J. Seth is as given
above. This is the oldost Armenian tombstone in Madras. It is
at the foot of the steps leading to the church and in shape and
appearance resembles a milestone.
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CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT — cord.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
CHURCH AT THE LITTLE MOUNT — cont.
1355 2nd July Samuel and Natalia Aqui ostao sopultados Samuel Edmands, natural do London,
1755. Edmands. que fallecoo aos 2 do Julho 1755, de idado do 66 annos,
e Natalia de Rosarto, amboa piadozos consorteH. Oh fiois
quo p:i8Hais aqui, rozaia pello amor de Doos hu Padre Nosso e
hua Avo Maria.
[*' From a tombstone at tbo Little Mount Church " — Urquhart,
Vol. 1, p. 42.] Fiois ^ fideles 4 ' the faithful."
1356 1st July Helena Bilderbeck. Aqi jaz Helena de idado de 12 mozos filha de Senhor. C.
1807. Bilderbeck o de sua espoza Helena aqual falocoo ao I de
Julho 1807.
Mr. Christopher Bilderbeck, merchant of Madras, died at Colachel,
Travancoro State, November 10th, 1817. He was connected
with the family of John DeMonte, whose son was named Christo-
pher Bilderbeck DeMonte (see No. 1480).
1357 20th July Victoria Cabau . . Aqui jaz Madame Victoria Cabau falocida na idade do 42
1809. annos aos 20 do Julho 1809.
ThiH lady died at Covelong. She was wife to Nicholas Cabau, a
doctor. A Miss M. Cabau married Mr. G. Robertson, February
1809. Mr. John Piollow (see No. 752) married, July 31st, 1826,
Aurora, daughter of Mr. John Cabau, Senior.
The Asiatic Annual Register for 1801 reports under events for August
1800, an accident on 3rd instant, when a bullock coach with
6 children in it belonging to Cabau, ran into tho river near the
Wallajah Gate and one of tho children a boy near 10 years old
was drowned. Elian Cabau married Charlotte Talbot native
spinster on Dec. 24,1814.
At the house of Mr. George Robertson, St. Thome, Mrs. Justina
Quickly, the eldest daughter of Dr. Nicholas Cabau, aged about
40, died on 14 Jan. 1816. (Asintie Journal, July 1817).
On June 20, 1837 at Madras, Mr. L. Cabau died aged 50 years.
CHURCH OF THE EXPECTATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN, ST. THOMAS' MOUNT.
This church crowns the summit of St. Thomas' Mount, familiarly known as the Big Mount, an isolated cliff' of greenstone and
syenite 300 feet above the level of the sea. In the Annual Register for 1774 will bo found extracts from a curious poem on
Saint Thomas' Mount written by " a gentleman, resident in India." its author was Kyles Irwin (1751-1817), a well-known
Madras Civilian (see No. 2028).
The hgeml of St. Thomas Mount.
At the back of tho altar of tho church was a largo carefully preserved block of stove upon which a cross was carved. It is said that
whon St. Thomas was pursued and finally martyred by Brahmins, his blood gushed out upon this rock on which he fell and
that the rock was removed to the church, and during tho recital of tho creed on the 21st Day of December, which is tho
anniversary of tho death of St. Thomas, the rock was seen by, all the people to sweat large drops of blood, and ever after at
tho same time of the year tho wonderful miracle occurred. It had, however, not been seen to do so for last 70 years. An
oil painting is placed before tho sacred rock. It represented the Virgin and child, a crude painting upon wood, after tho
stylo of the old religious paintings. " This," it is said, " is a picture painted by St. Luke, who wa« an artist. Tho Virgin
died when St. Thomas was away and on his return he had the tomb opened in order that he might once more look upon her.
It was found that tho body had been miraculously removed and St. Thomas was so distressed that St. Luke offered to point
him a portrait of the Virgin as a consolation. This St. Thomas carried about with him on all his wanderings. It was even-
tually found buried at tho foot of tho Mount, and was brought to the Church. Many years ago an attempt was made to
renovate it, but when the artist touched it with his brush, he immediately became blind. Thirty years ago, another attempt
was mado, but the paint would not adhere to tho wood, and rolled down in globules of mercury. It was seen, therefore,
that this was a holy picture and it has not been touched since."
Father Joseph Carroll in an article dated 29th January 1918 to the Pioneer quotes some authorities in support or mention of the
tradition bearing on the martyrdom of St. Thomas the apostle.
1358 800 A.D. . . Inscription round the Mun hamich Meshikhai avakshayi madam-afras-ich.
Cross. Khar bukhto sur-zay mun bun dardo dj na.
" He whom the suffering of the selfsame Messiah, the forgiving and
upraising has saved is offering tho plea whose origin was the
agony of this." Inscription round the cross behind the altar.
This cross was found by the Portuguese about A.D. 1647 when
digging amongst the ruins of former Christian buildings for the
foundations of the chapel over whose altar the cross was subse-
quently fixed. The characters are Sassanian Pehlevi, <c the
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CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT-^conf.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
CHURCH OF THE EXPECTATION OP THE BLESSED VIRGIN, ST. THOMAS' MOUNT — cont.
divine high-piping Pohlevi " of Omar Khayyam's nightingale,
stanza VI. It is the old heroic Sanscrit of Persia. Dr. A. C.
Burnoll, M.C.S., was the first in 1873 to decipher tho inscription,
which dutes from about tho ninth century A.D. There is a facsi-
mile of it in Epigraphica Indiea, volume IV, page 174. Practi-
cally the samo inscription is found round the two crosses in the
Valiyapalli church at Cottayam in Travancore, followed in the
case of the larger cross by a text in old Syriac from Galatians VI,
14. "But far be it from mo to glory, save in the cross of our
Lord Jesus Christ."
1359 1707 . . Safar Zaoharias . . Esto alpondre com a porta dosta igroja mandou fazer Coja
Safar Zacharias no anno do 1707.
Tablet let into the outer wall of tho church commemorating the
building (mandou fazer = fieri mandavit) of tho porch (alpondre)
and doorway by an Armenian named Zachary in 1707. The
Armenian inscription below runs : " This is in memory of Safar,
son of Zachariah, tho Mahtosey." Mahtosey means pilgrim and
denotes one who has gone on pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre
at Jorusalem. It corresponds to tho Persian Haji or in Hoiwell's
quaint spelling 44 Hodgoe, who acquire this title from having
made a pilgrimage to Hodge.'*
1360 20th Oct. Gregorio Parao . . Gregorio Parao Armonio 1707.
1707.
44 This is the tomb of Gregory, who is the son of Sarkies. He is a
native of Erivan, a citizen of a great city, a merchant of pearls
and a sojourner at Madras. Ho is of a meek and humble nature.
Tho Lord seated on a throne of light shall have mercy on his
soul and ho will be worthy of the Kingdom. Whoever on his
behalf shall say 4 Father, I havo sinned ' shall be remembered
bofore Christ. Died in tho year of the Saviour 1707, on Saturday
October 20th." (Translation from the Armenian.)
This is the one of the oldest inscriptions of this nation traceablo in
Madras. There are older ones at Calcutta (Keza Becbee Sookeas
1630) and at Agra. An Armenian colony had existed at the last-
named place from very early times, and in ] 609, Captain William
Hawkins, of the ship Hector, envoy from James I to tho Court
of the Mogul, had been given an Armenian maiden in marriage
by Jehangir. Hawkins unfortunately died on the journey home.
His widow married Gabriel Towerson, ono of tho first factors
of the East India Company, who was killed in the Amboyna
massacre of 1622.
1361 20th Dec. Perinas Sultan Hie jacot doraina Pertnas filia C. Sultan ot domina Anam
1739. AnamMarcar. conux C. Joannes Marcar natione Armena nata Ispam in
Persia diem supromum obiit Paleacat 20 Decembris 1730
triginta tres annos nata.
Two persons appear to be buried here. C. is an abbreviation for
Coja, 44 master/* a title generally appliod to preceptors and
merchants.
1362 20th Feb.
1764.
Anna David
Hie sub monumento jacet Anna Jacobyan quso fuifc dilecta
conjux Sultan David et carissima nationi auaj Armeni®
pnecipue suis cognatis oriunda civitate Julpha in Persia et
agens sexaginta quatuor annos obiit in Madraata 20 Feb-
ruarii 1764.
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60
CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT-^cowi.
Sariai Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
ON THE STEPS LEADING TO THE GREAT MOUNT.
The steps were rebuilt by Petru* Usoan in 1726, and the date appears over tho gate. Uscan put a setting of solid stone to hi*
stairs on either side ; something which is bench and wall in one. He endowed them, too, and they are in perfect repair.
1363 20th Sept. Anna da Grac, a Parai caminhato lode e rezai. Aqui jas Anna Pkreira filha
1694. legitima do Diooo Perkira o de Aoada Pereira natural do
Madraspatam mulher quo foi do Paschoal da Craca, a
qual fallocoo em 20 do Soptembro do jdado de 41 annos e
por sua muita humildade quis ser scpultada ao pe deste
Santo Monte, poraquo o devoto lei tor por charidade rezo por
amor de Deus um Padre Nosso o Ave Maria. Anno do
Senhor 1694.
" Stop, traveller, read and pray. Here lies Anna Pereira, lawful
daughter of Diogo and Agatha Pereira, a native of Madras, who
was the wife of Paschoal da Graea. She died hero on the 20th
September, aged 41 yoars, and, by her great humility, wished to
be buried at the foot of this Holy Mountain, that the devout
roader may for charity and for the love of God pray ono Father
and Hail Mary. Tho year of our Lord 1694."
1364 26th July Adeodata Roach . . Hero lies the body of Adeodata Roach, wife of Major John
Roach of Madras, who departed this life the 26th of July
anno Domini 1719 in hopes of a happy resurrection to eternal
life.
John Roach married Adeodata Wheatley, March J 7th, 1717. He
had displayed great gallantry that same year in defeating an
attack made on Trivatoro by the Nabob's troops ; and Governor
Collet and his council made him 44 Major of all tho Honourable
Company's forces on the Coast of Coromandel and the inland of
Sumatra." Ho was also awarded a gold medal set with diamond
44 sparks " and valued at 300 pagodas. Roach sailed for England
on 23rd January 1735 on tho Montague, Capt. Richard Gosf right
with G. M. Pitt (late President) and Rev. Robert Wynch (see
No. 89). A Captain Edward Roach was in Calcutta at the time
of tho siege in 1756.
1365 17th Oct. William and Louisa Sic transit vita hominis. Hoc sub saxo jacont et quiescunt
and 7th May. qui in tempore brevi multum curriculum ferentes in
Fob. 1744. stadio non desistentes noo animo delinquontes inter huius
mundi varias et permixtas tribulationes a mundo carne
necnon a diabolo instigatas ad *eternos lauros possidendos
evolarunt scilicet Guilelmus May Alius William May ot
Ludovic^e Gomes quadraginta duos annos agens Madrastse
oriundus Annjs Acart viduus Octobris die decima septima
anni millesimi septingontesimi quadragesimi quarti necnon
mater eius Ludovica Gomes nata Antoni Gomes ot Ann^j
Ribeira vidua William May et Richard Ware annos
sexaginta agens septima Februarii anni MDCCXLIV obiit.
Fleres si sciros unum tua tempora mensem, Rides cum non
sit forsitan una dies.
De baixo desta campa jazem e descancao Gtjlielmo May filho
de William May e de Luiza Gomes, da idade de coarenta
dous annos natural de Madraspatanao viuvo do Anna Acart,
o qual faleceo aos dezasette de Oitubro do anno 1744, e sua
may Luiza Gomes, filha de Antonio Gomes e de Anna
Ribeira, viuva de William May e Richard Ware da idade
de LX annos falecida aos 7 de Fevereiro no anno MDCCXLIV,
os quaes sendo suas almas delles purificadas pellas varias
tribulacoens que ilhes suscitaram os inimigos das almas
61
CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT— cont.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
ON THE STEPS LEADING TO THE GREAT MOUNT — cont.
Christianas, forao se a gozar de galordao eterno q ilhes mere-
ceo a sua varonil Christandade e heroica passiencia.
Ob quaes. " They, after having purified their souls by various
tribulations, which the enemies of Christian souls raised against
them, wont to enjoy the eternal reward (galordao) which they
merited by thoir manly (varonil — virilis) Christian virtues and
heroic patience. " The Portuguese epitaph is practically a trans-
lation of the Latin, but the latter is more remarkable from its
curious reference to the " varife et permixtro tribulationes a
came imindo necnon a diabolo instigataj." Richard Ware's
name figures at tho foot of the list of Kroomen living within Fori
St. George in 1684 with the note 44 married to a Mustez". A
Samuel Hepburn married Rosa Acart, April 27th, 1729.
TABLETS IN ST. THOMAS' CANTONMENT CHURCH AT THE MOUNT.
1366 13th June William Sydenham. To the memory of Major General William Sydenham, Com-
1801. mandant of the Artillery at this Presidency, who died on the
13th of June 1801, aged 48 years. The officers of that
Corps have erected this monument. His able and valuable
public services during the long period of 33 years were
acknowledged in the repeated approbation of the Governments
of India and of the Honorable the Court of Directors.
This monument is in the compound at the back of the church.
He entered the army in 1768( soe No. 261 ). (
Sarah Sydenham married Lieut. Robert Roll in Madras on 31 July
1787. Miss Lucy Dorothea Pye Sydenham married Captain
Tredway Clarke at Madras on February 12, 1795. Miss Catharine
Sydenham married Captain John Woodbridge Hilton at Madras
on October 10, 1798.
1367 16th July John Noble . . Lieut. -Colonel John Noble, C.B., born at Greenock in Scotland
1827. served with distinguished reputation in India during a period
of 32 years. He formed and commandod the Madras Horse
Artillery with eminent skill and with the recorded appro-
bation of the highest Military and Civil authorities, and died
at Madras 16th July 1827, in the 48th year of his age. In
remembrance of his intrepidity of spirit and presence of mind,
his professional enthusiasm, vigour and promptitude in
action, and kindness and generosity in peace, his brother
officers of the Madras Artillery have raised this monument.
A fine marble monument by Chan troy, with a bust of the deceased*
In the R.A. Moss, Woolwich (upper smoking room), in a portrait
of Noble. There is an isolated tomb to his memory at tho Mount,
orected by the native commissioned and European and native
non-commissionod officers and gunners. 1 1 was blown .down in the
hurricane of 1846, but re-erocted in 1848 under the superinten-
dence of Captain R. L. Reilly, P.W.D. (No. 2277). It bears
in Tamil, Telugu and Hindustani the words 44 Colonel John
Noble."
On a monument approached by a high flight of stops at Begumpot,
Hydorabad : 44 Colonel John Noblo Founder Madras Horse Artil-
lery : died Madras A.D. 1827. Reproduced 1870, by Major
Proudfoot, Original Subscriber. S. John 8c.'*
He joined the Artillery in 1794, ensign Januarys, 1796, Liout.
April 14, 1798, Captain September 21, 1804, Major September 1,
1818 and Lieut.-Colonel August 16, 1821. Ho died on board the
'* Roxburgh Castle in sight of Madras.
On July 14, 1850 at Jaulnah, Major H. N. Noble, 40th N. T., died
aged 47 years.
1368 10th N« \ A. Byam . . In memory of Captain A. E. Byam, of the Madras Artillery,
j ' ' who, endeared to all who knew him, by his noble and generous
disposition, and universally admired for his enthusiastic
love of his profession, after serving his country for 18 years
62
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Name. Inscription.
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(4)
TABLETS IN ST. THOMAS' CANTONMENT CHURCH AT THE MOUNT— cont.
on the establishment of Fort St. George, and distinguishing
himself in most of the campaigns which occurred during that
period, died at the Cape of Good Hope, on the 10th of Novem-
ber 1839, aged 34 years. This tablet is erected by his afflicted
widow, as a poor tribute to his worth, and in testimony of her
devoted attachment.
Captain Adolphus Elizabeth Hyam was a godson of the Duchoss of
York, from whom he took his second name Elizaboth. There is
an obelisk to his memory on an eminence opposite the Bolarun
Residency. He had been Military Secretary to the Resident at
Hyderabad, and died at Rondebosch, near Capetown. He
married, April 26th, 1835, Maria, widow of the Lieutenant-
Colonel Grant (Nos. 997 and 2871).
A. E. Ryam joined the Artillery in 1821, was Lieut. June 10, 1821
and Captain September 1, 1831.
On May 6, 1854 at Saugor, U. W. T. Byam, 7th L. C, died.
1369
22nd April
1844.
John Peter Grant.
1370
18th Aug.
1849.
James] Edward Port-
eous.
1371
7th Oct.
1849.
Frederick Derville.
John Peter (J rant, Esq., of Corriruony in tho county of
Inverness, Staff Surgon, Tenasserim Provinces, and for many
years attached to the Regiment of Artillery, who during a
service of 20 years in various parts of the extensive empire,
embracing the Burmese, Coorg and Chinese campaigns, was
not less distinguished in tho practice of his profession than
for kindness of heart and urbanity of disposition, died April
XXII, 1844, XLIII years of age. Erected by his friends and
brother officers.
Perhaps of the Hame family ah Sir John Peter Grant, Lieutenant-
Governor of Bengal, who was the second son (born 1807) of Sir
John Peter Grant, Kt. (1774-1848), of Kothiemurchus, Inver-
ness, M.P. for Great Grimsby and Tavistock, a Puisne Judge of
the Bombay Supreme Court and subsequently of the Calcutta
Supreme Court from 1833 to 1848.
To the memory of James Edward Porteous, Esq., Assistant
Surgeon, for 12 years Medical Officer of the C. Troop Horse
Artillery, who died at Jaulnah the 18th August 1849, aged 39
years. In grateful and affoctionate romembrance of his
worth and of the unremitting kindness, which endeared him
to all classes, this tablet was erected by the officers, non-
commissioned officers, and men of the C. Troop Horse Artil-
lery and many other friends. Dilectus delictus decessit.
Colonel Frederick Derville of the Madras Artillery who
having retired from the command of the Regiment at the
conclusion of a service of 40 years, died at sea October 7th
1849, aged 59 years. His brother officers have erected this
tablet in testimony of their respect for his private character
and as a rocord of their gratitude for his warm attachment
to the corps.
He joined the Artillery in 1807, was Lieut. April 6, 1810, Captain
October 19, 1820, and Major August 15, 1832. He married Miss
Amelia Limond, October 13th, 1821 (see No. 1309).
1372
8th Aug.
1850.
Alfred Beadnell
Lieutenant Alfred Beadnell, Adjutant, 1st Battalion
Artillery, who died at Socunderabad on the 8th August 1850,
aged 32 years. Erected by his friends in the Regiment.
63
CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT — cord.
Serial
number.
(1)
1373
Date. Name. Inscription.
(2) (3) (4)
TABLETS IN ST. THOMAS' CANTONMENT CHURCH AT THE MOUNT-
12th April
1852.
Augustus Frederick
Oakks.
1374
4th June
1852.
Hugh Montgomery.
Archibald Foulis.
Josiah Frederick
Smith.
William Dallas.
1375
11th Feb.
1855.
John Back
1376
26th Sept.
1857.
Charles Wade Crump.
1377
5th July
1860.
Frederic Blundell.
Major Augustus Frederick Oakes, Captain in the Madras
Artillery, Director of the Artillery Depot of Instruction, who
was struck down at his guns by coup de soleil during the
attack on Rangoon on tho XII April MDCCCLII, aged 44.
This tablet erected by his brother officers records their grate-
ful sense of the benefits he conferred on the Regiment of
Artillery and perpetuates the testimony borne to his merits
by the Government he served. " Major Oakes' whole
course of service was distinguished by the singular activity
and unceasing labour with which he devoted himself to every
subject belonging to his profession, rendering his death a loss
not only to his immediate regiment, but to the servico at
largo. Major Oakes died as he had lived in the energetic
discharge of his duty."
There \h a long account of thin officer in Lieut. Win. Laurie's Second
Uurmewe War, 1853.
On Oct. 1!), 1849 at Socunderabad, Lt. K. C Oakes, 40th N. I., died.
Sacred to the memory of Captain Hugh Montgomery,
Captain in the Regiment of Artillery, Major in the
army, Superintendent of a division in Mysore, an officer
of distinguished ability, whose death at Calcutta on the
4th June 1852 was consequent on the fatigue and
exposure undergone at tho attack and storming of Rangoon
on the 13th and 14th days of April preceding " where he
ably and gallantly fought the Light Field Battery under his
command." Also to the memory of Captain Archibald
Foulis, who had honorably served in the Coorg, Coomsor and
China wars, greatly and deservedly beloved by all. Also to
the memory of Lieut. Josiah Frederick Smith and William
Dallas and the non-commissioned officers and men of the
regiment who have died during service in Burmah. This
tablet is erected by the officers of Artillery to record their
deceased comrades' merits and services.
Montgomery was born 13 March 1802 : tho son of Sir H. C. Mont*
gomery. Ho joined the Artillery in 1825, Lieut, on June 27, 1829.
Lieut-Colonel John Back, of the Madras Artillery, who having
served with distinction in the Kolapoor campaign of 1826, in
the expedition to China in 1842, and in the second Burmese
War in 1852, died at sea on his return from Rangoon Feb.
11th 1855, in the 52nd year of his age. This tablet is erected
by his three surviving sisters.
On June 28, 1854 at Palamcottah, Maj. Thomas Back, 2nd N. I.,
died.
In memory of Charles Wade Crump, Lieutenant in the Madras
Artillery, whose life full of high promise was well but early
closed in the 32nd year of his age at the relief of Lucknow
under General Havelock on the 26th September 1857. He
was killed while doing his duty with a skill and courage,
conspicuous even there. His brother officers here record
the affection and honour with which they hold the memory
of this able and devoted soldier.
Major-General Frederic Blundell, C.B., Madras Artillery,
who after an uninterrupted service of 44 years, died at Chel-
tenham on the 5th July 1860, aged 63 years. This tablet is
erected by his brother officers.
His wife Emily died at the Mount, March 2nd, 1843, aged 38
years and 10 months, and has a tahlot to her memory in this
church. She was the second daughter of Lioutenant-Colonel
Barrow, Deputy Judge Advocate-General, and was married May
1st, 1821.
64
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Serial
number.
Date.
Name.
Inscription.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
TABLETS IN ST. THOMAS' CANTONMENT CHURCH AT THE MOUNT — cont.
1378
26th Oct.
1862.
[sic]
William Cullkn
1379
1380
28th Dec.
1878.
28th Sept.
1894.
Sacred to tho memory of Lieut. -General William Cullen, of
her Majesty's Royal Artillery, Madras Establishment.
General Cullen entered the service of the late East India
Company in 1804, and distinguished himself at Candeish
and Berar against the Mahrattas, and with the forces against
Kurnoul in 1815. He was made Military Auditor-General
at Madras in 1831, and in July 1834 Commissary- General.
In acknowledgment of these important services in three
important offices, he was selected in September 1840 to
become the representative of the British Government as the
Resident of the Court of the Rajah of Travancore and Cochin,
where he continued 20 years. A man of singular uprightness
and liberality of character, he was an ardent cultivator of
science himself, and tho promoter of education among the
natives of India. He died at Allepey on the 1st of October
1862, in the 77th year of his age, loved, honored and lamented
by all who knew him.
Above the inscription is the figuro of a Pelican in hor piety with the
motto " Non sibi."
Edward Lionel Hull. In memory of Lieut. Edward Lionel Hull, R.A., who died
at Sukkur serving in 13/8 Brigade R.A. with the Kandahar
Siege Train, aged 25 years. Trfis tablet is erected by officers
of his battery.
Roland Roper
Lieutenant Roland Roper, R.A., born 26th February 1870,
died 28th September 1894. Erected by his comrades who
served with him in tho 49th Battery Field Battery.
Ho died at Trivandnim.
1381 21st March
1789.
1382
7th Sept .
1790.
Thomas Sutcliffe
1333
7th May
1793.
ST. THOMAS' MOUNT CANTONMENT CEMETERY.
Sarah Woodward . . The following inscription is taken from a board at tho head
of a grave in the Cantonmont burying ground at St. Thomas*
Mount :
" Here lieth the body of Sarah Woodward, wife of Charloa
Woodward, who departed this life March 21st 1789, aged
22 years, also George Woodward, their only child, who
did not long survive his unhappy mother. Ho died July
the 8th 1789, aged Seventeen months.'*
[Here lieth the body of Thomas Sutcliffe, Esq., late a Captain
of Artillery in the service of the Honorable East India Com-
pany, who departed this life the 7th day of September, at
St. Thomas' Mount, in the year of Christ 1790, aged 45
years.]
Urquhart records the tomb, which has since disappeared.
Sacred to the memory of Captain Joseph Pugh, 1st Battalion
of Artillery, who departed this life May 7th 1793, aged 30 years
and is buried undernoath.
Hope humbly thou, with trembling pinions soar,
Wait the great teacher Death and God adore.
He erected a tomb to his friend Cornet R.T. Mahon at Tanjore, March
28th, 1790.
Joseph Pugh
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CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT— cont.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
Name.
Inscription.
1384
1385
18th Nov,
1794.
12th Dec.
1795.
(2) (3) (4)
ST. THOMAS' MOUNT CANTONMENT CEMETERY -cont
Matthew Daly
Thomas Averell
1386 19th April Benjamin Frend
1796.
1387 29th Mar. William Saxon
1800.
1388 7th Juno Thomas Cookeslby.
1800.
1389 12th July David Court
1804.
1390
1391
1392
1393
1394
27th Feb.
1810.
24th July
1810.
8th Sept.
1812.
28th March
1815.
20th Mar.
1816.
Peter Grant
James Estcourt
Atwood.
Catherine Penn
Frederick Willock.
Richard Gomonde
[Lieutenant Fireworker Matthew Daly, Adjutant of the
Second Battalion of Artillery.]
" His remains wero interred on the following morning with the
usual military honours at the Cantonment burial ground of
St. Thomas' Mount/* Ho joined the Artillery in 1791.
[Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant Thomas Averell, Fort
Adjutant of Fort St. George, who departed this life 12th
December 1795, aged 30 years.]
D.O.M. To the memory of Lieutenant Benjamin Frend,
obiit 19th April 1796, aetatis 37.
He entered the Madras Artillery in 1783.
When a Lieutenant of Artillery at Warrioro ho married Miss Mar-
garotta Kennedy, daughter of the late Colonel Kennedy
January 15, 1790, at Trichinopoly (No. 161 ). She re-married
Fitzgerald, Maurice, Esq., on May 22, 1797.
William Saxon, Esq., aged 50 years.
At Calcutta on 27 February 1803 a Mr. Goo. Saxon married Mies
Sarah Cranby. Benjamin Saxton [S axon ? ] married Elizabeth
Loeorf at Canjam, 22 Fobruary 1801.
Thomas Cookesley, infant and only son of the late Lieutenant
Thomas Cookesley, of Artillery, killed on 2nd of May 1799,
before Srirangapatam, aged 8 months and 19 days.
See No. 952.
David Court, Esq., of the Honorable Company's Civil Service,
aged 22 years.
Writer, 1797; Assistant in the Jaghire, 1800; Rogistor to the
Judgo of the Zillah of Chingloput, 1802. Probably brother of
Major Henry Court, who commanded the Madras Artillory at the
capture of Amboyna in 1810 and was afterwards Governor of the
island of Ranca. Ho died April 2tst, 1874, aged 90. A Major
Henry Court, C.S.I., was Magistrate of Allahabad during the
mutiny. Another Mat hew Court was in the M.C.S., 1769-82.
Captain Peter Grant, Brigade Major of Artillery, aged 33
years.
John Potor Grant, Surgeon of the Madras Artillery, died April 22nd,
1844, aged 44 yoars.
Rev. J.E. Atwood, Chaplain at St. Thomas* Mount, aged 54
years.
" He served as Chaplain from 1799 at Vellore and as Junior Presi-
dency Chaplain. Ho was the first Chaplain at the Mount from
December 1804 till his death."
(At St. Thomas Mount Mrs. Catherine Penn.)
Lieutenant and Adjutant Frederick Willock, of the 2nd
Battalion Artillery, aged 24 years.
Lieutenant Richard Gomonde, 2nd Battalion of Artillery, aged
18 years.
An E. T. Gomonde, Assistant Collector of Seringapatam, died there,
December 15th, 1813 (No. 975). Captain Richard Gomonde,
Town Major of Fort St. George married Miss Susannah Ellerker,
September 13, 1789.
A Miss Eliza Gomonde married Mr. S. M. Simons on March 2, 1815
(Asiatic Journal, October 1816).
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He-rial
number.
0)
Date .
(2)
Name.
Inscription.
(3) (4)
ST. THOMAS' MOUNT CANTONMENT CEMETERY — cont.
1395
Gth Feb.
1817.
John Edwaeds
J 396
30th July
1817.
William Bell
1397
23rd June
1819.
Sarah Anna Smart.
1398
24th Not.
1821.
Francis Aiskell
Lieut.-Col. J. Edwards of H.M. 80th Rogiment aetat. XL, who
departed this life after a continued service with that Corps
of 24 years, 20 of which were spent in India, a loss that will be
long regretted by the 80th Regiment, as his worth was well
known to every Officer and soldier in it, by whom he was
universally respected, esteemed and beloved. His illness
was short, but a case such as to preclude all hopes of recovery,
which he knew and bore with a firmness and resignation seldom
equalled and never surpassed. This monument is erected
by his brother officers as a tribute of thoir affection and
sincere regard for a deceased and much lamented friend.
He diod at Guindy Cottage.
Mr. William Bell of the Civil Service, eldest son of Major
General Robert Bell, Commandant of Artillery, aged 29 years.
Ho had a won born at St. Thomas Mount on 21 si November 1816»
at tho house of his father (Asiatic Journal, August 1817).
His brother A. Bell of the Civil Sorvico married Miss Catherine
Baynes on November 3, 1817 at Tannah (Asiatic Journal, July
1818).
His father, who died in London, March 6th, 1844, married (1) Sarah
Sydenham, July 31st, 1787; and (2) after her death, in
December 1 799, Jemima Scott at Calcutta, who diod at tho Mount,
Juno 1st, 1813, aged 30. Lieutenant Henry Moberly, 25th N.I.,
married a Mrs. Henrietta Bell, July 23rd, 1821. Lt. Colonel
Henry Moberly 22nd N.I., died at Madras July, 5, 1852 aged 61
yoars. His wife Henrietta diod 12th August 1847, aged 51 years.
On June 2, 1804 at Madras Major William Berkley of the 2nd
Battalion 15th Regiment N.I., married Eliza Boll. Lieut. Charles
Rundall married Henrietta Bell June 3, 1809 at St. Mary't
Church, Madras. He died 12th July 1831 at Madras
a Lt. Col. (Lieutenant Colonel and Deputy Military Auditor
General). After him Kundall's Road was named.
Cf. Hyderabad tomb on Begumpet parade ground :• -
Beneath this stone has all that was mortal of the late Lieut.
Robert Bell obiit on XIX April MDCCCI aetat XX.
He was spirited, unaffected arid amiable. (3rd Nativo Cavalry).
Mrs. Sarah Anna Smart, widow of the late Lieut. Col. Charles
Smart of the Madras Establishment, aged 43 years. This
monument is erected as a mark of respect by her dutiful and
affectionate son, Lieutenant Hamilton Smart of the Madras
Army.
Colonel Smart, Quartormaster- General of the Madras Army, died
October 3rd, 1798, agod 43. He marriod Miss Barlow, September
4th, 1792 (see No. 230). Lieut. Hamilton Edmund Smart died
at Madras March 12, 1826.
Major General Francis Aiskell, aged 66 years and 5 months.
Ho entered the service of the Honourable the East India
Company on the 10th April 1779 and fulfilled the period of
42 years and upwards with the highest respectability as an
officer. In every relation of life he performed his duty to
the utmost and is now gone to reap the reward due to his
excellent conduct in this world at the hand of his Father
and God, his Saviour and Redeemer.
He married April 15th, 1800, at Dindigul, Mary, daughter of Si r
Robert Turing, Bart., late of the Madras establishment (See No.
2801.)
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number.
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Date. Name. Inscription.
(2) (3) (4)
ST. THOMAS' MOUNT CANTONMENT CEMETERY — cont.
1400
1401
20th May
1822.
10th Feb.
1823.
1399 20th Mar. Alexander Campbell. Ensign Alexander Campbell of South Hall. Erected to his
1822. memory by his affectionate friend, Lieut. Col. Limond of
the Artillery.
Limond was afterwards Sir James Limond, C.B., arid died at
Boulogne, August 14th, 1840. Lieut. Alex. Limond married at
Masulipatam, July 1800, Miss Watson.
Jeremiah Lowe . . Lieutenant Jeremiah Lowe, 1st Battalion Artillery, aged 25
years.
He joined the Artillery in 1814 and was made Lieut. Soptember
21, 1818.
Alexander Macleod. Major Alexander Maoleod of the first Battalion, 9th Regiment,
N.I., aged 37 years.
Probably son of Alexander Macleod, C.S., 1777 -1801 (aeo No. 2549).
The lady of Captain A. Macleod, 9th N.[., died at Trivandrum
August 24, 1817. (Asiatic Journal, March 1818.)
1402
1403
27th May
1823.
24th May John
1824. Dalzell.
James Graham . . James Graham, aged 37 years.
Sheriff of Madraw in 1821.
Glassford Lieutenant John Glassford Dalzell, first Battalion Artillery.,
agod 17 years.
Ho joined the Artillery in 1822.
1404
7th Dec. Donald Macqueen
1826.
Captain Donald Macqueen of the 2nd Light Cavalry in tho
39th year of his age.
He joinod tho Cavalry in 1806, was Lieutenant Nov. 5, 1814 and
Captain July 29, 1820.
Another Captain Donald Macqueen of the Royal Scots died at
Jalnah, September 2 1st, 1817.
1405 19th Oct. Henry Feltx Jack- Ensign Henry Felix Jackson, in the 9th N.I., in the 25th
1829.
SON.
year of his age.
He joined tho army an cadet in 1824 and was made Ensign May 0,
1825.
8th Nov. William Train
1829.
William Train Esq., Cantonment jSurgaon at St. Thomas'
Mount .
1406
1407 24th Nov. Matthew Henry Captain Matthew Henry Bainbridqe of the 23rd Regimont or
1408
1409
1829.
6th Mar.
1830.
Bainbridqe.
Herbert Rumsey
3rd Oct. William Fasken
1836.
Walla jabad Light Infantry, aged 26 years.
He was Cadot in 1817, Lieut. July 26, 1818 and Captain Juno 20, 1828.
Lieutenant Herbert Rumsey of the Horse Artillery, aged
21 years.
He joined the Artillery in 1824 and was Lieut. Oct. 8, 1826.
M. S. Gulielmi Fasken, M.D., qui corporis mala medendi
peritus per Lusitaniam, Hispaniam, et Galliam castra Brit-
tanica fortiter secutus, hie tandem in eadem cura ipse morti
occurrit die III Octobris MDCCCXXXVT, annos natus L.
Hoc monumontura ejus virtutis et amoris sui sooii military*
posuerunt.
He married Miss J ane Innes only daughter of the late Capt. Innee
of Aberdeen October 6th, 1826. Their eldest daughter Jane Eliza
married Goorge Thornhill, C.S., October 12th, 1847 (see No. 1934).
vol. n — 9A
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hoi ia I
ii anther.
(1)
Van,
,2)
1412 4th Dec.
1843.
1413 31st Aug.
1800.
1414 . 30th Oct.
1860.
1415 30th Juno
1808.
1416 7th Nov.
18G9.
1417 4th Dec.
1878.
CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT — cont.
Kamo. Inscription.
(3) (4)
ST. THOMAS' MOUNT CANTONMENT CEMETERY — cont .
1410 18th May
1837.
Helen Fair
141 1 28th May
1837.
Miriam Kelly
1418 10th Oct.
1884.
1419 18th Sopt.
1887.
1420 3rd Sept.
J 890.
Conditum jacot sub hoc lapide quidquid Helenae Howell fuit
mortale, defuncti Ttiomae Fair, quintae pedestris nativ®
logionis centurionis, filiae unigonitro, et tribuno pedestris
nativae legionis 27 ao Alexandro Fair, C.B., patruo suo
nimis charae, quae 14 Augusti nata A.D. 1814 obdormivit in
domino 18 Maii, A.D. 1837 cujus memoriae hoc sepulchrale
monumentum, inspiciente professoro Anglico J.H. William-
son, fuit erectum.
Alex. Fair, C.B., Major General 1837. Thomas Fair diod a Captain
at Goa Dee. 24, 1822. Lieut. Potor Fair 41st N.I., died at Waltair
Nov. 28, 1836.
Miriam, relict of the late Colonel Robert Kelly of the Madras
Army who diod at an advanced age. As a tribute of sincere
filial love this humble tomb has been erected by her only
surviving child Myra Taynton, widow of the late Lieut. -
Colonel John Taynton of the Madras Establishment.
Colonel Kelly fell in a duel at Arnee, September 25th, 1790. Mrs.
Taynton died June 8th, 1854, and her daughter Myra Ann, tho
wife of Colonel U.S. Foord, H.A., August 16th, 1849, aged 46.
Colonel John Taynton of tho Artillery died .lime 9th, 1831.
Major General Warren Walker, Lieut. -Colonel of H.M. 21st
Royal Scotch Fusiliers, died at St. Thomas' Mount.
His widow Anna Maria died at Mangnlore, September 8th, 1852,
aged 74.
Fames Amsinck, Brigadier Commandant of Artillery, aged 55
years.
lie joined the Artillery in 1821, was Lieut. May 11, 1X22 and Captain
Dee. 5, 1831.
Ensign John Amsinck of the Madras Infantry died at Vizagapatarn,
May 3rd, 1832, aged 23.
Stewart Raby Smith. Captain Stewart Raby Smith, Madras Artillery, son of Edward
Smith, Bengal Civil Service, who just as he had been specially
selected for command, died at St. Thomas' Mount.
J. R. C. Hickson . . Lieut. James Robert Conway Hickson, Royal Artillery, aged
24 years.
William Henry New- William Henry Newman, Captain in the Royal Artillery, aged
32 years.
Major S. H. Desborough, who was killed by a fall from his
horse at St. Thomas' Mount. Elected by his brother officers
at St. Thomas' Mount and Madras.
His horse collided with a buffalo, which crossed its path.
Hugh Brady White, Surgeon Major A.M. D., son of the late
Newport White, Esq., of Kilmaylon, co. Tipperary, aged 36
years.
Warren Walker
Eames Amsinck
man
S. H. Desborough
Hugh Brady White.
George Keith
Alexander McCally.
Colonel George Keith, M.S.C, second son of W. Keith, Esq.,
M.D., of Castor Munshals, Kincardineshire. Born 3rd Sept.
1838.
Miss Mount Keith, eldest daughter of Captain Sir George Mount
Keith, Bart. H.N. married John Frederick Ellerton of the C.C.S.
on Aug. 9, 181G (Asiatic Journal, March 1817).
Alexander McCally, Liout. Col. M. S. C, son of Major
General Arthur McCally and Mary his wife. Born 22nd
Sept. 1843.
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number.
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Date.
(2)
CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT— cont.
Name. Inscription.
(3)
1421
1422
1423
1424
1425
4th Oct. Alf. William Baillie,
1781.
12th Nov. William McNeil
1791.
6th Feb. Alexander Beatson.
1792.
14th June Margaret Maclean.
1793.
20th July Mary Heal
1790.
1426
1427
1428
14th Nov. Anna De Souza
1796.
2nd Aug. William Oliver
1803.
20th Aug. Sr. Guilhermo
1803. Olivera.
1429
3rd July
1807.
Frances Coleman
1430
7th Oct.
1813.
Peter Francis Fels-
jean.
CHINGLEPUT.
Hero lioth the body of Alf. William Baillie born the 17th of
March 1780 at Velore died on the 4th October 1781 at Chin-
gliepat. This small stone is placed here by his sorrowing
father Simon Baillie.
Here lioth the body of Serjeant William McNeil 6th Battalion
Native Infantry who departed this life the 12th day of Novem-
ber 1791. Aged 30 years.
Alexander Beatson, junior, aged 8 months and 16 days.
Perhaps a child of Colonel Alexander Beatson, who wrote the History
of the siege of Seringapatam.
Oakley, Charles, Esq., married Miss Helena Beatson Oct. 21, 1777.
Underneath this stone lieth interred Margaret Maclean who
departed this life on the 14th day of June 1793.
Mr. John Maclean married Miss Mary Penelope Stringer Feb. 1, 1788.
Lieut. Mark Wilks married Harriot Maeleane Sept. 21, 1793.
The following inscription is taken from her tombstone in the
Chureh-yard of Chingleput. " The body of Mary Heal lies
hero Virtuous wife and mother dear, great's the loss to those
she leaves behind. She no doubt eternal joys will find.
Died 20th July 1796 aged 26 years. "
John Heal (Serjeant) married Mary Miller at Ambore, February 3,
1787 and secondly Elizabeth Feters January IB, 1798 at Chingleput.
Mrs. E. Heal and her infant daughter died March 11, 1809.
Here lies the body of Anna De Souza aged 19 yoars died
14th November 1796.
Sacred to the memory of Mr. William Oliver a Professional
Writer and one of the principal inhabitants of Madras died
at Chingleput on the 2nd day of August 1803, aged 45 yoars.
Em Memoria de Sr. Gfiluermo Olivera escrivao de professao
o Hum dos principaes cidadaoens de Madrasta quern faleceo
em Chinglepetta aos 20 de Agosto de 1803 de idade de 45
annos os que olerem esta sejar sorridos de rejan hum Padre
Nossce Ave Maria.
Frances Coleman, wife of G. Coleman, Esq., Judge and
Magistrate of Chingleput, aged 28 years. Merit demands and
grateful memory with pleasing sadness pays this last tribute
to departed worth.
Mr. George Coleman was one of the old stamp of Civilians, who
lived in great stato with a largo troop of servants. Ho was a
native of Hereford shire. His wife's obelisk stands in a deep
enclosure, surrounded by a wall of its own. She was a Miss Owen,
married on 5th May 1806, while Coloman was Commercial
Resident at Masulipatam. Coleman died July 1st, 18f>7. John
Krskine, C.S. (No. 2253) married a Miss Maria Coleman, Dec. 6,
1787.
Captain Peter Francis Felsjean, aged 60 years and 18 days.
A native of De Grand Fontaine. Ho entorod the Regiment do
Meuron, April 30th, 1788, was promoted Captain-Lieutenant, Juno
1st, 1790, and pensioned January 1st, 1800. At tho time of his
death he commanded tho native invalids at Chingleput. His
tomb is in the Roman Catholic cemetery.
Mr. Charles Martin waa rnarriod to Miss Halena Catherine Kitsejeart
(?Filsjoan) by the Rev. Dr. Rottler at the Black Town Chapel on
Dec. 15, 1809
70
Serial
number.
(1)
Dato.
(2)
CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT — cont .
Name. Inscription.
1431 25th Jan.
1820.
1432 18th Feb.
1824.
(3)
G. C. Johnstone
J. F. Gell
CHINGLEPUT — cont.
(At Achterrypaukum of palsy on the route to Trichy Lieut.
G. C. Johnstone Royal Scots.)
Captain John Farmer Gell, aged 35 years, H.M. 1st or Royal
Regiment, who departed this life one month after his arrival
in India.
1433
1434
27th April
1825.
19th May
1854.
John Lewis Hoofs- J. L. Hoofstetter, Captain, 2nd Native Veteran, Battalion,
tetter. late in command at Chingleput, aged 32 years.
Ho joined tho army as Cadet in 180H and was Lieut. Sop. 21, 1804.
James Alexander James Alexander Wedderburn, M.C.S., aged 28 years.
Wedderburn.
A member of tho family of w hich Sir John Andrew Ogilvy Wedder-
lmrii, Bart., is tho present head. Ho was tho second son of John
Wedderburn (horn 1798 and died 1839) who married Lady Helen
Ogilvy, youngest daughtor'of 7th Karl of Aislio (sho died 18()8). He
was born August 1st, 1825, and married, March 28th, 1848, Marion
daughter of Sir James Cosmo Melvill, K.C.B. His second son is
Mr. A.D. Woddorburn, K.C., Recorder of Cravesend. His brother
is No. 2270. Another member of tho same family was F.E.K.
Wedderburn, of the Madras Civil Service, who died at Calinga-
patam, February 1st , 1893, and was a brother of Mr. II. C2. Wed-
derburn, Administrator-General of Madras. Their father, Mr.
Andrew Woddorburn, was a member of the Madras Civil Servico
from 1841-78, and assumed on retirement the additional name
of Maxwell. Sir James William Colvile, Advocate-General
of Bengal (1845), Puisne Judge (1848), and Chief .1 ustico (1855-59),
belongs to the same family. His grandfather was a son of tho
fifth Baronet and took tho name of Colvile in 1774.
Another Lieut. David Ogilvy Wedderburn, 37th grenadiers, died
Sept. 2, 1853.
1435
1436
25th June
1S57.
14th Nov.
1801.
Joseph Lidwell
Heathorn.
George Boulderson
Tod.
Captain Jos. Lidwell Heathorn of tho 3rd Regiment or P.L.I.
Assistant Engineer of this Zillah who died on the 25th June
1857, aged 35 years.
George Boulderson Tod, Esq., of the Madras Civil Service,
who died at Atcherawauk, aged 27 years.
A fine blue granite monument. Son of Ceorge Tod, B.C.S., and
Charlotte Bannerman, his wife.
At Calcutta on June, 1, 1818 died Susan Tod wife of Major George
Cadell, 12 Madras N\l. Adj. Cenl., Subsidiary Force, Hyderabad.
1437
25th Mar.
1787.
William Freeman
POONAMALLEE.
To the memory of Lieutouant William Freeman, late of his
Majesty's 36th Regiment who departed in this Cantonment
the 25th of March 1787. As the only tribute of regard now
in her power, this stone has been placed over his remains
by an affectionate sister, anno 1794.
Miss Polly Hill Freeman married Captain Thomas Bridges, July
31, 1777.
Urquhart in his Vol. Ill page 15 locates it in the burial ground of tho
British Military Cantonment of Poonamalleo.
1438
3rd July
1793.
Ambrose Russell
Sacred to the memory of Captain Ambrose Russell, of his
Majesty's 52nd Regiment, obiit 3rd July 1793, aet. 37.
Sincerely regretted by his brother officers, who have
erected this monument in testimony of their esteem.
71
*6eriftl
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT — cord.
Name.
(3)
Inscription.
(4)
POONAMALLEE — cont.
1439
19th Juno
1799.
Donald McDonald . .
1440 6th Juno
1803.
1441 9th Dec.
1807-
1442 25th May
1808.
1443 27th April
1809.
1444 10th Oct.
1809.
1445 24th July
1812.
1446 3rd Aug.
1812.
1447 2nd Mar.
1817.
1448 4th June
1818.
1449 25th June
1819.
John Laughlin
Eliza Stodakt
Allen Cooper
In memory of Major Donald McDonald, of the Honourable
East India Company's Service, amiable for his social disposi-
tion, eminent for his professional talents and distinguished
for his fortitude in captivity and in danger, obiit 19th June
1799, autat sua? 42. This monument was erected by the
officers of his corps, 2nd Battalion, 12th Regiment Native
Infantry, who served under him at the siege of Srirangapatam.
Major DironVs nurmtivu of the siogo records : " 17th April 1799,
Col. McDonald with the 2nd 12th Madras Infantry occupied the
hank of tho little Cauvcry, which thonco was known hy the name
ofMcDonnld's Post." Murray's "Handbook to India" (1894
edition), writing of tho spot, says : *• It is hard to realise that here
we have McDonald's Post. The rippling of water is only hoard,
except for the occasional splash made by a bright kingfisher shoot-
ing down into the stream, and in the distance the slow creaking
of the labourer's water lift."
Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant John Laughlin, H. M.
Ceylon Regiment, obiit 6th June 1803 aetat. 28 years.
Lieut. John Laughlin of the 78th Regt. married Mrs. Mary Maskay
April 1802 at Calcutta.
Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Eliza Stodart who departed this
life 9th Doeoml>er 1807, aged 28 years.
Alexander Stodart Esq., died May 1807.
(Sergeant Allen Cooper aet . 31 died 25th May 1808.)
Patrtck Heron New- Patrick Heron Newall, Lieut, in the M.E. Regiment.
all.
The Madras European Regiment has since been merged into tho
Minister Fusiliers. He joined the army as Cadet in 1805 and
was Liout. O t. 2, 1808.
J. Mackintosh
Charles Booth
James Stewart
Henry Stodart
John Ingleby
John Hewson
Sacred to the memory of Mrs. J. Mackintosh, wife of Mr.
William Mackintosh, Surgeon of this station who died
October 10th 1809, aged 31 years and 10 months.
Ensign Charles Booth, H. M. 34th Regt., aged 20 years.
Ensign James Stewart of H.M. 78th Regiment, aged 25 years.
Lieutenant Henry Stodart, H.M's 80th Regt., aged 24
years.
Ensign John Inoleby, H.M.'s 53rd Regiment, aged 25 years.
This monument was erected by his brother officers who
accompanied him from St. Helena.
John Hewson, Esq., late a Captain in H.M. 89th Regiment,
in the 50th year of his age.
His oldest daughter Catherine Jane married at Quilon, July 31st,
1820, Captain Sheeny of tho same Regiment. Another Miss
Hewson married Major Wahab, 17th N.I. at Secunderabad,
January 1821.
In London 1833 Lieut. John M. Hewson, 89th Regiment married
Genevieve, relict of the late John Beaumont Esq., of Madras.
72
CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT— cord.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
POONAMALLEE — cont.
1450 29th Aug. David Carstaibs (At Connatoro near Madras whither he was journeying to embark
1819. for Madras after one day's illness of a cholera morbus Major
David Carstairs of the 8th Native Infantry.)
1451 15th Oct. William Barber Captain William Barber Fairtlough, of H.M.'s 63rd Rogi-
1837. Fairtlough. ment, who died at Cunatur on his march from Madras to
Arnee.
Cunatur its 3 J mile* from Arnoo and wan a cavalry .station in tho last
century. No inscription is now readable in its little cemetery.
ON THE RACE COURSE AT GUINDY NEAR THE SIXTH HOLE OF THE GOLF COURSE.
*• The following inscription is taken from his monument which stands on tho plain opposite tho Madras Raco Course and between
St. Thomas' Mount and tho Marmalong Bridge"
1452 17th Sept. Donald Mackay . . Erected to the memory of Major Donald Mackay, who died
1783. Sept. 27th 1783 [sic\ and whs buried underneath in front of
the lines of the army.
Mackay entered the corps of artillery in 1705 and i^ stated to have
been mortally wounded at tho sioge of Cuddulore in June 1783.
PULLALOHE.
Polliloro or Pullaloro is a viliago lying about 2 miles from Palur Railway Station , which is between Conjecvoram ami Arkonam on
the (/hingleput-Arkonam branch of tho South Indian Railway. It was tho scene of two memorable battles between Haider
and the English.
1453 27th Aug. James Hislop .. Sacred to the memory of Captain James Hislop who was
1781. killed by a cannon ball from the enemy near this spot, tho
field of battle, while serving as Aid-do-camp to Lieutenant
General Sir Eyro Cootc, K.B., Commander-in-Chief. His
professional abilities and private virtues were felt and
acknowledged by all his contemporaries.
1454 27th Aug. George Brown . . Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant Colonel George Brown-
1781. When Lieutenant of Grenadiers in Draper's Regiment, ho
lost his right arm on tho storm of Conjee veram Pagoda
occupied by the French on the Kith April 17r><) and tell in a
general action fought on this field between tho English forces
and the troops of Hyder Ally Cawn Behawder on the 27th
August 1781, esteemed by every rank, a gallant soldier,
an able officer, and an honourable man.
** More than (>,()00 of them were killed or wounded. Our loss was about
r>00;m o n. General Stuart and Col. Brown lost each of them a leg
by the same cannon ball, as they were talking together in tho
beginning of tho engagement ; the Colonel died a few hours after ;
but tho General recovered and is now in the field. It is doubted'
by many whether we have derived any advantge from this battlo "
(Munro's Journal to his father dated from tho Camp at St. Tho-
mas' Mount 2nd Oct. 1782. Gleig Vol. 1, p. 45).
These are two lofty obelisks with inscription tablots painted black.
Urquhart locates them in a garden near a village about 4 miles'
from Perambaucum. "The battle in which tho above gallant
officers fell is described as having been one of the most ably
contested and desperate that was over fought with tho native
powors of India. The scene of action was on the same m 0 morablo
ground where tho gallant but ill-fated troops commanded by
Colonel Baillie had been recently destroyed by the countless hosts
of Hyder and his son Tippoo." Hyder claimed it as a drawn
battlo. Another veteran of these campaigns lies buried near
Chandernagore in Bengal opposite Oyrotty Ferry. \** Major
James Moore, who so gallantly distinguished himself during the
late war in the Carnatic ; ho died on the 26th of January 1785
aged 34 years. S.O. sculpsit" [sic]. The sculptor was Samuel
Oldham. A monument was erected to BailuVs memory at
Seringapatam by his nephew Lieutenant-Colonel John Baillie,
Resident at Lucknow, in 1816 (see No. 947).
11
Eerie)
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT — cont.
Name. Inscription*
(3)
(4)
WALLAJABAD.
A considerable cantonment for His! Majosty's and the Company's troops. Wallajabad received its name from Mahomed Ali>
Nabob of the Camatic, 1754-95, the hero of the Nabob's debts, who took tho title Walajah in 1776. Its mortality for troops
became so great that it earnod the appellation of " the grave of Europeans." Thoro are throe portraits of Nabob Walajah
in existence ; a full length at Government House, Calcutta ; a replica of this with a different background at Hampton Court
Palace (dated 1774) ; and a similar picture in one of the Committee Rooms of the India Office. The painter was George
Willison, a Scotch artist, who realised a largo fortune in the East Indies and died at Edinburgh in 1797. Ho paintod the
curious portrait of Lord Pigot in the Tanjore Palace (see No. 39G).
1466
1456
17th Oct.
1802.
19th Nor.
1804.
Edward Bacon
Henry Tonson
1457 lHh Juno
1807.
1458 28th Aug.
1808.
14 9 14th Sept.
1808.
1400 22nd Oct.
1809.
1461 5th July
1819.
1462 6th June
1821.
1463 26th Nov.
1821-
1464 2nd April
1822.
1465 31 Bt July
1823.
1466 27th Jan.
1824.
1467 23rd May
1824.
John Manoin
Alexander McGill.
Robert Elliott
Alexander Stewart.
James Stewart
Lynch.
Ensign Edward Bacon, of his Majesty's 74th Regiment, died
the 17th day of October 1802.
Here lie deposited the remains of the Honorablr Henry
Tonson, of his Majesty's 34th Regiment, who died on the
19th November 1804, in the 21st year of his age.
Henry Tonson was tho 7th son of 1st baron Riversdalo of Rathcormac
co. Cork by Rose Bernard, eldest daughter of James Bernard of
Castlo Bernard co. Cork and sister of Francis 1st Karl of Brandon*
born 6 Feb. 1783 died a Lieut. 34th Foot.
In memory of John Manoin, Lieutenant in his Majesty's
30th Regiment, who departed this life on the 11th June A.D.
1807, aged 22 years. This monument is erected by his
brother officers.
Sacred to the memory of Ensign Alexander McGill, of tho
Royals, who died the 28th August 1808.
Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant Robert Elliott, of tho
Royals, who died 14th September 1808.
(At Wallajahbad, Quarter Master and Acting Paymaster,
Alexander Stewart of H.M. 12th Regiment.)
In 1811 when James Wathen visited Wallajabad Lieut. Col. John
Dighton 7th Native Infantry commanded Wallajahbad and W.
Baron Kutiloben, Lieut. 22nd Native Infantry, Cantonment
Adjutant. The 8th Native Infantry was then in garrison.
Dighton's lady died at Trichy March 1813, when he was command-
ing tho Southern Division of tho army (Lieut. John Dighton
married Miss Sophia Smart on February 8, 1790),
Major James Stewart Lynch, of H.M. 1st Regiment of Foot,
aged 44 years.
Maria Sarah, wife of Ambrose Crawley Esquire, C.S. aged 24
years.
William Loader . . Ensign William Loader, of the 1st Battn , 6th Regiment.
Maria Sarah Craw«
ley.
P. McMillan . .
John Crichton
Neil Roy
P. McMillan Esq., Assistant Surgeon, 1st, 8th, 12th Regiment
of F.W.I. , aged 25 years.
Captain John Crichton, 17th Regiment or C.L.I.
Neil Roy, Lieutonant, 69th Regiment and Past Master of
Lodge No. 983, aged 27 years.
On September 11, 1825, Captain James Roy, of the 2nd European
Regiment, died at Soanpett on his route to Nagpore.
Thomas G. Coote . . Captain Thomas G. Coote, H.M. 54th Regiment, aged 37 year*.
vol. n— 10
74
Serial
number.
(1)
1468
21 et Not.
1826.
1469
11th Dec.
1828.
CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT-*™*.
Data. Name. Inscription.
(2) (3) (4)
WALLAJABAD — cont.
George Budd . . Major George Budd of the 42nd M.I., aged 40 yeara.
George Hayward Budd was Cadet in 1804, Lieutenant July 17, 1805,
Captain November 3, 1819 and Major October 3, 1826.
Madras Almanac gives 20th November as the date of his death.
He married Miss Elizabeth Cole, February 27th, 1810. He had a
son born at Carmanore on 30th January 1817. (Asiatic Journal,
September 1817.)
Alice, daughter of Capt. W. H. Budd, 31st L.I., died on March 16,
1850, aged 4 years.
Henry Wallace Henry Wallace Sale, Lieut. Colonel, 8th Regiment N.I.,
Sale aged 46 years.
Ho married, June 1st, 1815, Sarah, daughter of L. G. Ford of Mel-
combe Regis, Dorset. He was probably a relation of '* Fighting
Bob " Sale of Jellalabad, who married Miss Florentia Wynch,
May 6th, 1809 (See No. 1069).
1470
1471
9th Jan.
1829.
22nd Aug.
1825.
6th April
1830.
1473
John Dalrymple,
Elleanor Dalrym-
ple.
Henry Bazett Dove-
TON.
1472 5th Jan. C. C. Johnson Esq.
1832.
8th Jan.
1834.
1474 3rd Sept.
1834.
A. Herklots
Lieut. Colonel John Dalrymple of H.M. 30th Foot. Also
Mrs. Elleanor Dalrymple wife of the above aetat 20 years.
Captain Henry Bazett Doveton, of the 4th Regiment Light
Cavalry, aged 37 years. This monument is erected by
General Sir John Doveton, K.C.B., as a token of affection.
This was a natural son of Sir Michael Doveton and brother of John
Doveton, the founder of Doveton College (diod 15th October,
1854).
His brother Captain Edward Doveton, of the Madras Army, A.D.C-
to Sir John Doveton, diod at Calcutta, September 10th, 1823 t
aged 22. Sir John himself died at Madras, November 7th,
1847 (see No. 430).
C. C. Johnson Esquire, late an Assistant Surgeon on the Madras
Establishment, aged 29 years, 1 month and 21 days.
A. Herklots, Esq., Surgeon,
aged about 37 years.
Madras Establishment,
Editor of the well-known work on Mahomedan Customs M Qanun-el-
Islam."
At Batavia J. O. Herklots, Esq., member of the Supreme " Court
of Justice " at that place, died in June 1799.
Henry Degraves . . Lieutenant Colonel Henry Degraves 2nd N.V., aged 51 yoars
He joined the army as cadet in 1799, was Lieut., on December
15,1800, Captain April 6,1810, Major May, 1824 and Lieut-
Col. May, 13, 1827.
1475 23rd Jan.
1839.
1476 29th Jan.
1848.
1477 17th May
1849.
J. Palmer
Edward Smith
William Graham
Cassidy.
. . (At Wallajabhad Major J. Palmer 2d. N. V. Battalion.)
. Edward Smith Esq., Surgeon in the Madras Army aged 39
years.
William Graham Cassidy, Lieutenant of H. M. 51st or
K. O.L.I, who died suddenly at Rajah's Choultry, aged 25
yoars. His widow and brother officers unite in erecting this
monument over his remains.
75
OHINGLEPUT DISTRICT— con*.
Serial D»te. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) 0) (4)
TRIPASORE.
Tripasore stands in a Zomindari estate about 2 miles wost of Tiruvallur. It was formorly a considerable cantonment and a ata .
tion for cadets in tho Company's service. The new Town of Cuddalore was substituted in 1806 for Tripasore for quartering
the cadets of infantry arriving from Europe.
1-478 24th Aug. Samuel Kilpatrick. This tomb is erected by me as a mark of esteem, affection and
1781. gratitude* to tho memory of Major Samuel Kilpatrick of the
Hon' bio Company's service, Bengal Establishment, who
departed this life while on service with Colonel Poarso's
detachment on the Coromandel Coast. William Kilp.itrick.
Colonel Thomas Doane Poarso was Warren Hastings' second in the
duel with Francis. Ho died in 17SJ) and lies in South Park Street
Cemetery, Calcutta. On his epitaph it is rocorded that he mar-
ched a detachmont to join tho army under Sir Eyro Coote in tho
Carnatic and served (horo during the war and returned to Bengal
in 1785. During tho campaign of 1781-82 several duels took
place with fatal result and in one of those Major Kilpatrick fell.
The survivors in such encounters were t"iod by Courts-martial
for having boon accossory to the deatlis of the porsona killed,
and were invariably acquittod. Tho finding of tho Court in tho
present case is dated camp at Velout, Septombor 18th, 1781 :
" The Court, having well considered tho evidenco for and against
tho prisoner Captain Richard Scott, together with what he has
urged in his defence, are of opinion that the chargo against him
viz., of his having boen accessory to the doath of Major Samuel
Kilpatrick, has been fully provod, but as through the whole
course of the proceodings^many circumstances occur very favour-
able and alleviating, they do thorofore acquit him of any degree
of criminality, and ho is hereby acquitted accordingly. Signed
George Mackenzie, Major, 73rd Regiment and President." Both
Scott and Kilpatrick belonged to tho Bengal Native Infantry.
COVELONG.
On the coast 20 miles south of Madras. Tho fort now demolished was called by the natives Saadat Bunder, and was built by
An war-ud-deen (Nawab of the Carnatic 1 744-49) within muskot shot of tho sea noar tho ruins of another belonging to the
Imperial East India Company of Ostend, whoso principal factory was at this place. Covolong possesses a Roman
Catholic Church, almshouse and orphanage founded and supported by grants from the DoMonte family, formerly rich
merchants of Madras. The place is only known to-day us a Salt factory,
1479 17th July Joana Pereira Mitnis. Aqui jaz urn modelo perfeitissimo da obediencia filial, hum
1811. oompleto exemplar do amor nupcial. Aqui jaz Joana
Pereira Munis filha muito amada do Victoriano o Rosa
Pereira, esposa graziossima de Antonio Munis, a qual na
flor da sua odade contando 18 annos o 25 dias terminou a
carreira de sua vida em Coulad em 17 de Julho de 1811. Cujo
pay em Sinai do seo amor e para desafogo da sua dor mandou
fazer este opitafto, e pede a todos que so Jembrem da sua
alma com urn Padre Nosso e Ave Maria.
1480 5th Feb. Christopher Bilder- At the entrance of this chapel are deposited the remains of
1816. beck DeMonte. Christopher Bilderbeck DeMonte, son of John DeMonte
Esquire, and of Mary, his wife, who died at Rastadt in Ger-
many on the 5th of February 1816 in the 22nd year of his
age on his return from the Continent of Europe to India
His remains have been removed from thenco to this chapel
by his disconsolate parents in the year 1817.
Na entrada desta capellinha Kiao depositados os ossos de Chrisfovao
Bilderbeck D'Monte filho do Senhor Jao o de Monte ede Senhora
Maria D'Monto Que falecoo em Rastadt no impero di A/emania
aos 5 do Fevereiro de 1816 na idade de 22 annos. J. Stringer
Sculptor, Madras.
Above the stone is a view of the church where his body was interred.
wots, ii— 10a
7«
CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT — cont.
Serial Data. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) W
COVELONG— conf.
1481 6th May John DeMontb In memory of John DeMonte, Esquire, of Madras, the founder
1821. of this chapel who departed this lifo on the 6th of May 1821
in the 56th year of his age, possessed of an ample fortune, the
reward of diligence and integrity in commercial pursuits.
He adorned the prosperity with which Providence blessed him
by humility, moderation, and active, though unostentatious
benevolence, while his heart and hand were alike open to the
cries of genuine distress or the calls of public utility, without
respect to differences of religion or nation. He strikingly
exemplified the injunction of the Lord Jesus Christ, 44 When
thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right
hand doeth."
The firm of Lys Satur and DeMorite was dissolved January let,
1810, and the old firm of Lautour <fe Co. filtered to the title of
Arbuthnot DeMorite & Co. John DeMonto's portrait hangs in
the Mylapore Seminary. He lived in what is now the Adyar Club
Ho married Mary Bilderbeck. (see Nos. 805 and 1356). Her
brother was Christopher Bilderbeck who had 4 sons Emmanuel,
Joseph, Charles and John. Christopher's daughter Mary was left
25000 Star Pagodas by de Monte and the House and Garden
situated at thoLuz. The House and Gardon situated at Egmore
near the Panthoon known as Underwood's gardens (the house lately
bought from the Estate of Mr. Mclaggart) was bequeathed to his
nephew Joseph. His will was dated 19th July 1820 and codicil
was datod 25th April 1821. Ho was released from the firm of
Arbuthnot De Monte <fe Co., 31 December 1820.
Mrs. Penny in her " On the Coromandel coast, p. 69 " has a story of
DeMonte's only son being killed in a duel on the ship that wag
carrying him to Madras tho day before it landed and that he was
buried in the cemetory at Mylaporo.
1482 Feb. Maria Bernard In memory of Maria Bernard born 1856 entered religion 1874
1905. died Feb. 1905 R.LP. (Nativo nun).
DUTCH CEMETERY AT PULICAT.
Pulicat (Palaiyaverkadu ** the old jungle of mimosa trees " or Pavalaikkadu the jungle of coral ") is situated 25 milos north of
Madras on tho south bank of a lake of tho same name. It is the site of one of the earliest settlements of tho Dutch East
India Company, who in 1609 built a fort here and named it Castel Geldria, after Goldorland, one of the States of Holland.
The old Dutch cometory is perhaps the most interesting of its kind in India ; and tho artistic morit of the coats of arms
carved on the tombstones is such that it has boon suggested that thoy were sent out from Holland, though no authority
is known for the statement. Twenty-two of tho tablets are reproduced in reduced facsimile in Mr. Koa's Monumontal
Remains of the Dutch East India Company " (Archaeological Survey Sorios, volume XXV). Tho burial ground is entered
by a quaint Komanosque lichgate, bearing the date 1650 and the words " Beat i qui in domino moriuntur, quioscunt a laboro
buo. Apocalyps cap. XIV. V. XIII. Salich syn so die in don Heere sterven, sy ruston van haren arbeyt." In front of
each of the two gateposts stands a sculptured stone skeleton, almost life size. These figures are said to be male and female.
One has a hourglass on his hoad and the other supports a skull on a column. Tho native legend is that the former figure
holds an eggshell and represents a Dutch Governor who, during a terrible famine, doled out eggshells of rico to the starving
poor and made a fortune out of their sufferings. His memory was so execrated that every passer-by usod to spit at the
effigy, and a railing was therefore placed round it. An old church and an old sun dial adjoin the cemetery. On tho oppo-
site side of the lake to Pulicat is the small hamlet of Coromandel which is popularly supposed to have given its name to the
whole of the eastern coast of this Presidency. The word Coromandel is, however, either a corruption of Cholamandalam
" the realm of the Chola kings " or of Karumanal " tho black sand " (ironstone) washed down by the Palar river and carried
up the coast. Towards Sadras, especially, quantities of such sand are found on the shore.
Pulicat is described in Taylor's Vopery Mission page 12 as follows : — "Pulicat is a prettily situated place on tho bank of a river
which, in the rains, is made to communicate with the sea. A small Fort heretofore was on its bank. On the other
side is a narrow strip of land, termed Coromandel, in miniature, which the sea may be expected within a few years to
destroy. The rivor running between opens into a fine lake : an inroad there is reason to believe from the sea. It was once
a flourishing place of commerce, excolling in the manufacture of a peculiar kind of handkerchiefs, in great demand among
tho Malays of the Eastern Islands ; and, at one time, highly esteemed even in Europe. It has an old Dutch Church and
If. Roger, author of La Porte Ouverte aux Indes, was at an early period, about 1725-30, Chaplain to the Dutch Factory.' 9
:7.7
CHINGLEPUT BISTRICT— cont.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (*)
DUTCH CEMETERY AT PULICAT — cont.
Fabricius with the children of his boarding school retired there in 1743.
Abraham Roger Dutch Chaplain at Pulieat 1631-1651— returned home in 1647 and died at Conda in 1651. His widow pub-
lished hiH work "La Porto Ouverte, pour parvenir a la Connoissance du Paganismo Coche. Amstordam chez Joan
Schipper 1670." The information contained in this book in very corroct, as the author had it all at first hand from a
Brahman whom he calls Padmanaba, who knew Dutch and also gave him a Dutch translation of Bhartrihuri's Satakas (see
page 293 of Roger's book), the first published translation from Sanskrit into any European language. (Note to Constable's
edition of Bemier's Travels page 334. 4 The Gentiles of Hindoustan.*) Bernier says (page 337) " I am not less indebted to
Messieurs Henry Lor (Lord the Anglican Chaplain at Surat) and Abraham Roger than to the Rev. Fathers t Kirker and
Roa". (Heinrich Hoa S. J., a German attached to the Goa Mission. Athanasius Kirker, S.J. born at Giessen near Fulda
in 1602 ; died at Rome in 1680, at onetime Professor of Oriental Languages at Wurtzburg, author of China llluatra.)
1483 31st Aug. Jacob De With . . Hier loyt begraven d'E.H. Jacob De With in syn leven jongsht
Raet oxtraordinair van India, Governeur ende Directeur
dese custo Coromandel met den aenoleven van dien, over-
leden ulto Aug. 1651, out synde 40 jaeren. (Coat of
arms.)
1484 10th July Willem Jansen De Hier leydt begraven Willem Jansen De Lichte soon van
2^ r ,5 Licitte. schipper Jan Willemsen D'Ltciite, gebooren den tweeden
Mey Ao. 1655, en overleden 10 July desselven jaers.
1485 1st Oct. Neeltje VanWede. Hier leyt begraven Neeltje Pieteksen, doehter van eapit.
' 2055 Pieter Hubrechtsen onde huisvrouw van Cornells Van-
Wede overleden den eerstcn October anno 1655. Als my
de doot in't leven bracht, Ick telde iaren thien en aeht.
Monogram N. P. " Here lies buried Noolt je Pietersen, daughtor of
Captain Fieter Hubrechtsen, and the wife of Cornelius Van Wede,
diod the first of October 1655. When death brought me into
life (eternal) I numbered 18 years. "
1486 25th Oct. PrETEB Van Bart . . Hier leyt begraven Pieter Van Bart van Delft, in syn leven
coopman in dienste der Vereenigde Oostendische Compo en
hooft wegens hare E. E. affairen op't contoir tot Karikal
overleden 25 October 1655 out syndo 38 jaren. (Coat of
arms.)
A very early mention of Karikal. It was sold to the French Governor
Dumas in 1738 by " Sahagy marajou, Roy de Tanjaour.
1487 15th Nov. Cornells Kruyf . . Hier leyt begraven Cornells Kruyf out syndo twee jaeren
en twee maonden, is gestorven den 15 November Ao. 1655.
1488 21st Aug. Elysabet Pit . . Hier lecht begraven Elysabet Pit, dochter van den Heer
Governeur Laurens Pit, geboren den 14 Augo Ao 1654.
endo gestorven den 21 Augo 1656.
Her little brother Christian Pit died at Mnsulipatam, September
20th, 1651.
1489 5th Jan. Pieter Van Buyten- Hier onder leyt begraven Pieter Van Buytendyck, gebooren
2^57 dyck. den 27cn December 1656, gestorven den 5en January Ao
1657.
Keynier van Buytendyck is buried at the Negapatam Saltpans,
1684, aged 64.
1490 2nd April Abraham Van Hier leyt begraven Abraham Van Roscam, van Delft, out
1657 ROSCAM. ontrent 25 iaren in syn leven eerst adsistent in dienst van de
V.O.C., overleden de 2 April Ao 1657.
The interesting feature about this epitaph is that it contains the
Company's monogram V. O. C. exactly as it is found upon their
coins. The letters stand for Vereenigde Oostendische Compag-
nio, " United East India Company." They have been taken to
moan " Very Old Coin."
Major T. Ffronch writing to a paper some years ago wrote that he
picked up a coin at Cannanore which, he said, had on one side,
as far as he could remember, a lion rampant rising out of the sea
on the top of a shield, and on the other side the mystic letter*
V.O.C.
7«
Serial
number.
(1)
1496
H97
1498
1499
Date.
(2)
1491 22nd April
1657
1492 9th Fob.
1658.
1493 24th Juno
1658.
1494 17th July
1658. [Wc|
1495 30th Oct.
1659.
13th June
1660.
25th Nov.
1661 and
1st Oct.
1663.
27th Jan.
1662.
6th July
1662 and
13th Oct.
1663.
CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT— cent.
Name. Inscription.
(3)
DUTCH CEMETERY AT PULICAT— cont.
Mabia Vandbroucq.
(4)
Peter Mateussen . .
Hior loydt begravon Maria Saubyn van Amsteldam, huys-
vrouw van don ondorooopman Elias Vandbroucq out 28
iaron, ovorlodon don ady 22 April Anno 1657.
Hior loyt bograven Peter Mateussen, schippor vande Oostendis*
ce Companie van'tiacht do ttaphier, out 51 iaren, gestorven
don 9 February 1658.
Monogram P.M. He was Captain of the yacht *' Sapphire."
Roelant De Carpen- Hior legt begraven Maria De Carpentier overlodon don 24
tier and Family. Juny 1658, out ontront 3 iaron, ondo Maria Van Heussen
ovorlodon don 25 Juny 1666, out 19 maendon, mitsgaders
Adriana Gerrits Cant, huejsvrou van don coopman on
fiseaol Roelant ])e Carpentier, ovorlodon don 3 Dooember
1667, out ontront 57 jaron, zyndo moedor on grootmoodor
van boydo do voornoomdo dochterjons ; novons juffrouw
Adriana De Carpentier, huysvrouw van don ondorooopman
Sachkus Van Heussen, overleden don 18 Moy 1672. Ook
Sr Roelant De Carpentier cooprnan is ovorlodon don 30
September 1673, out syude ovor do 71 jaor, wosendo groot-
vador on vador als man dor bovenstaende porsoonen. (Coat
of arms.)
Hior loyt bogravon juftrouw Anna Steegmans huysvrouwo van
don coopman Sr Jacob Coorn, out 34 jaron, in don Hooro
gorust don 17 on Juny Ao 1658. (Coat of arms.)
Dit is't Worck van Damus Cornells van de Kaoh. Hior
loit bogravon Marorita Pieters huysvrouwo van Damus
Cornelis. Hior loit oock bogravon Damus Cornelisen
out omtront 33 jaron on gostorvon op don 30 Octobor anno
1659; alsmodo L) ainus dochtortio Cornelia out 31 jaoron
6 maondon gostorvon don 30 Oetobor anno 1659.
Hior loyt bogravon Abraham Carter van Rotterdam in zyn
lovon coopman in dionst dos Voroonighdo Nodorlantse Oot*.
tindischo Compagnio oudt 40 iaeron ovorlodon don 13 Juny
Ao 1660.
Coat of arms of a cartwheel in allusion to the name Carter.
Hior leggon bogravon Maria De Lange goboron in s'Graven-
hago den I on September Ao 1659 on gostorvon op Masuli-
patam don 25on November Ao 1661, Antonetta DeLange
geboron alhior int eastoel don 27on October Ao 1662 on aldaer
gostorvon don Ion October Ao 1663,
Van Such- Hior loyt begraovon juffrouw Joanna Maertensz huysvrouwo
van don corporael dor adelborston Jan Martensen Van
Suchtelen in don Hooro onstslapen don 27en January
Ao 1662, out geweest 33 jaer. (Coat of arms.)
Anna Coorn
Damus Cornells
and Family.
Abraham Carter
Maria and Antonetta
Delanoe.
Joanna
telen.
Adolborsten lit.
midshipmen."
" noble youths or " cadets '» is the term foi
Fredrick and Marta Hior loyt bogravon Fredrick Barent do soon van Jan
Barent. Barent out 40 dagon ovorlodon 6 July Ao 1662. Hior
leyt begravon Marta Barent out 3 jaron 7 maenden orer-
leden den 13 Octobor Ao 1663.
79
Serial
number.
(1)
Data.
(2)
1500 24th Aug.
1662.
1501 3rd Aug.
1663.
1502
7th Oct.
1663.
1503
1504
4th Mar.
1667.
17th Sept.
1667.
1505
21st March
1669.
1506
28th Sept.
1669.
CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT— conU
Name. Inscription.
(3) (4)
DUTCH CEMETERY AT PULICAT— cont.
Dirck Maes Van
Rees.
Maria Vanden-
broeck.
PlETERNELLA VAN
Valenchyn.
Adriana Bornet
PlETER CORNELLSSEN
Matseeuws and
Family.
Pieter and Assensa
HUYBERTSEN.
DOROTIIEA SERVAES.
1507 26th May Cornelis
1670. Outhoorn.
Van
Hier loyt begraven Monsr Dirck Maes Van Rees in syn levon
provisioneel vacndrich ten diensto der N. Oostendischo
Compe, ge boron don 29 May dos jaers 1625 ende in don Heere
ontslapon don 24 Augusty Ao 1662 out go wees t zyndo 37
jaeren 2 maondon on 23 dagon. (('oat of arms.)
'tgraf van Pieter Vandenbroeck ondorcoopman. Gostorvon
Maria Vandenbroeck 3 Aug. 1663 out ii m.
The representation of the coat of arms seems either to contain
spaces for colouring or to be an attempt to render tinctures.
Hier loyt begraven juffrouw Pieternella Pietersen doohter
van den capitoyn Pieter Huybertsen on woduwo van don
provisioneel ondorcoopman Abraham Van Valenchyn in
zyn levon geweost opperhooft tot Sadrangapatnam over-
leden den 7 October 1663 out geweest zyndo 23 jaron 9 maen-
den en 7 dagon.
Hier leyt begraven juffrouw Adriana van Disseldorp huysvrou
van Carel Bornet, is ghestorven den 4en Maort Ao 1667.
Hior logt begraven Pieter Cornelissen Matseeuws stero den
17 Soptombri 1667 out 71 jaron on syn dogters Catarina store
don end© Septembri 1668 out 7 maondon, ook Susanna
huisvrou van Isaac Roes store den 22 Jan. 1674 out 25 jaron
met syn dogters dogtorjo Catarina Wilms store 2 Doeombri
1673 out 2 jaor 9 maondon.
Hier onder leyt begraevon Monsr Pieter Huybertsen van
Rotterdam in syn levon cappitoyn ten dionsie der vereon-
ichde N. Oostindischo Compagnio, gostorvon den 21 Maort
anno 1669 out zyndo ontrent 70 jaeren ; alsmode loyt begraven
juffrouw Assensa Pietersen huysvrouw van do bovengen-
oomdo oappitoyn Pieter Huybertsen ovorleden don 1 1 Sep-
tember anno 1669 out zynde 68 jaeren ofte daorontront.
(Coat of arms.)
Hier onder logt begraven Dorothea Paviloens wedue wylon
Hendrick Servaes zaligor in syn levon geweest ooopman
ton dionsto der E. Comp on medehooft dos comptoirs Masuli-
patnam, zynde tot Palliacatta ge boron don 27 Mey Ao 1650
on int casteel Geldria ovorleden den 28en Septomber 1669
out 19 jaron 4 m. on 1 dag. Oock Jegt hier Henrietta
Servaes haor boider dochter obyt 17en January 1671* out 15
maondon. (Coat of arms.)
Hior loyt begraven Cornelis Van Outhoorn soontjo van den
coopman Sr. Hendrick Van Outhoorn, overleden den
26 May Ao 1670 out zynde 6 jaeren en 3 maondon. Oock
leyt hier begraven juffrouw Petronella Duraeus eglitgenoot
van den opporcoopman Hendrick Van Outhoorn voorn't
overleden tot Masulipatam den Son February Ao 1674 oud
wesende 32 jaren 4 maenden en hior overgebraght den 26
daoraen volgende.
Coat of arms of three horns. Signor Outhoorn was afterwards Chief
of Maflulipatam. Streynsham Master's account of his visit to
that place in 1679 records : " 27th March. In the afternoon,
the Chief of the Dutch with his second and five more came to visit
the Agent, etc., who were entertained at a banquett and went
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Serial
number.
(1>
Date.
(2)
CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT — cont.
Name. Inscription.
(3)
DUTCH CEMETERY AT PULICAT— cont.
home againe about 8 at night. Signor Outhome discoursing with
the Agent amongst other Bravadoos delivered this as remarkable,
that their Company had so many Islands and Castles in the South
Seas, many of which he named, that they were as Emperors,
they had heretofore made Kings, as a King of Ternot and a King
of Cochin, and now lately they had made an Emperor, viz., tho
Mataran, who had severall Kings under him, and he had given
their Company all t he seaports upon the coast of Java ; when they
wanted men upon their call, the Kings brought their armies to
fight for them, as a great Prince of Macape whom he named had
brought a great army to Hattavia to light the King of Bantam by
land, and they intended to block it up by sea, and when ' twas ob.
jected that it may bo their Company at homo would not approve
of a warr with Bantam, he replied he knew bettor for ho came from
Battavia, this yeare about January last. 1 * The Dutch at that time
had a firmer hold of the country than their competitors the Eng-
lish. These remarks foreshadowed the attack on Bantam in 1682,
when the Dutch took the place and drove out the English.
Hcnrik Van Outhoorn became Chief at Masulipatam in 1679 in
succession to Hartsinck who followed Smit in 1677. " Senior
Peter Smit Chief for tho Dutch of this place lyes very dangerous
sick. Senior Hartsinck their Cheife at Colcondah Mr. Smithe'g
half brother is come down to succeed him, being to succeed him
in his place." December 31, 1676. Pietor Smit died at Masuli-
patam 2ist March 1677 (No. 1939).
1508 3rd Juno Fredrtk Frontenius
1671. and Family.
1509 30th Oot. Geertruydt
1671. Almondh.
Van
1510
1511
18th Oct.
1673.
31st Dec.
1673 and
27th May
1677.
Jaoomina Pit
Sara and Elisabeth
LlNDENBORN.
Hior ley t bograven den Eerw. Fredericus Frontenius ge boor-
tig van Almelooven out omtrent 44 jaren ovorleden 3en Juny
Ao 1671 in't castol Oeldria tot Palliacotta, en nogh 2 kindren,
Hendrick Frontenius geboren int jaer 1658 den Sen Augusti
on gestorvon den 23en desselven rnaent, Elisabet Frontenius
geboren int jaer 1659 den 22en Augusti en gestorven den 22en
April Ao 1655. (Coat of arms.)
William Frontenius, probably this man's brother, was drownod
between Masulipatam and Palicole, October 14th. 1687, aged 31.
Hier loyt begraeven juffrouw Geertruydt Duraeus in haer
leven huysvrouw van den ondercoopman Jacob Van Almon-
de overloden den 30 October 1671 out 28 jaeren en 9 raaon-
den (Coat of arms.)
Her infant son Hondrick Van Almonde died at Masulipatam, August
16th, 1682.
Sepultura honestissima* piissimaeque doming; Iacomin^ Baf-
fart, uxoris dilectissimro D. Martins Pit, quso puerpora
obiit A. C. MDCLXXIII die XVJII Octobris, relicta filiola
unica Iacomina Pit quae biduo solum matri superstes fuit.
(Coat of arms.)
Deso grafstede begrypt hot lichsem dor suyver jongvrouw Sara
Lindenborn dochter van saliger Sr. Hercules Lindenborn
in syn levon capitoyn vando Borgorye tot Colombo, besluy-
tendo haor levon met den laesten Xbr Ao 1673, out synde
17 jaoron ii maenden 12 dagen.
Maegt.
Saba waS macr stof en aaS
Al even nA en evondrA
Roept ons met haeR, do doot te gaeR
Amen, gods genA leeft in Sab A.
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Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
1512
10th Nov.
1675.
1513 28th May
1676.
CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT — cont.
Name. Inscription.
(3) (4)
DUTCH CEMETERY AT PULICAT— cont.
Ook leyt hieronder do eorbare jonge dogter Elisabeth Linde-
born ge boron don 28on November 1660 en tot Palliacatta den
27on Moy Ao 1677 overleden zulx oud geweest synde 16
iaren 6 maendon rair eon dag. (Coat of arms.)
" This tomb contains the body of the chaste lady Sara Lindenbom,
daughter of Hercules Lindenbom, of pious memory, in his life-
time Captain of the Trainband at Colombo, who closed her life
on the last day of December 1673, aged 17 years 2 months and 12
days. Maid Sara was but dust and ashes. Even thus and just
as soon she calls us to follow her in death. Amen. Cod's grace
lives in Sara."
A doggrel four-line acrostic on the name Sara having tho four letters
of the word at the beginning, middle and end of each line. Tho
coat of arms represents a linden tree. Hercules Lindenbom
died at Colombo, May 24th, 1604, and is buried in Wolfendall's
Church. He was not only captain of the townguard, but also
*' Vieseprcsis vant civilo collegio deser stat Colombo." He was a
native of Drontem and a Vrycoopman.
Hercules Lindenbom was married to Johanna Bolwerk. Their
daughter Elizabeth was baptized in Colombo 20th Fobruary
1661. Maria Lindeborn died at Porto Novo, 27th January 1686
Aet. 27, 6 months, 1 day. She was the first wife of Jan Corte
(No. 2445). The 2nd wife of Jan Corte was Elizabeth Turenhout
widow of Casper Nilo, who died 17 November 1687.
Hior leyt begravon juffrouw Catharina Blochovius huiusvrou
van den coopman Sr. Jacob Corbisier gostorvon den 10
November Ao 1675 out synde 29 jaaren en 20 dagon. (Coat
of arms.)
Jacob Corbisier died at Masulipatam, August 15th, 1687.
Jan and Andresa Hior leyt begraven Jan Hendriksz van Amsterdam in syn
Catharina Corbisier.
Hendriksz.
1514 4th Aug. Hendrick Duiker
1676.
1515 12th Mar. Ioannes Verkerck.
1678.
1516 19th Jan.
1679.
Samuel Delafosse.
lovon kuipor in dionst dor E. Compo overleden don 28 Moy Ao
1676 en syn huisvrouw Andresa Paulus overleden don 30
July Ao 1677.
Hier leyt bograven den E, Hendrick Duiker in syn loven
opporcoopman ende geeligeert opperhooft dos Nederiandshon
Comptoirs tot Tegenep'itnam gebuoron tot Embden den 30on
May Ao 1620 ende- in don Hooro ontslapen den 4en August i
Ao 1676 out 56 jaron 2 maenden on 5 dagen.
Hier ondor leyt bograven Ioannes Verkerck, geboortig van
Do If, in syn lovon ondercoopman en twoodo persoon in't ryok
Pegu, hier tot Palliacatta overleden don 12en Marty Ao 1678
out synde omtront 46 iaren.
Above the inscription is a well-carved representation of a church
besido a spreading tree, with reference to the deceased's name
Verkerck, which if anglicized would be Mr. Church. Tho allusion
to his being second person in the Government of Pegu dates from
a period when the Dutch held the factories of Ava and Syriam in
Burma. Another representation of a church is found on tho tomb
of Maria de Hock neo Wermelskircher, who died Juno 15th, 1788
at Jaffna in Ceylon.
Hior leyt bograven Monsr Samuel Delafosse in syn Joven
coopman gewoost synde in don dionst dor E. Compo en opper-
hooft ten contoire Ava in't ryck Pegu, overleden alhier tot
Pallecatte den 19en January Ao 1679 out 38 jaoren 4 maanden
en 13 dagon.
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82
CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT— cow*.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number*
(1) (2) (3) (4)
DUTCH CEMETERY AT PULICAT— cont.
151 7 23rd May Nicolaus and Joannbs Hier leggen bogravon Nicolaus en Joannes Clement gestor ven
1679. Clement. den 23 en 26 May 1679 tot Palliacatta out 5 endo 2 jaren,
kinderen van Nicolaus Clement en Geertrvypa Van Dale.
(Coat of arms.)
1518 5th Nov. Jaques Caulier . . Begravenis-plaats van den E. E. Heere Jaques Caulier in syn
1679. leven Gouverneur en Directeur der kuste Kormandel ende den
rosorto van dien, geboren in de stad Gent 1620, gestorven
tot Paleakatta Ao 1679, don 5en November out 59 iaren 8
maanden en 12 dagen.
Den Bestieder Jaques rust mot vier van syne naam.
En tweemaal twee gebaart door tweverscheyde moeders.
Dees heylige rusting geeft eon eouwigdurondo faam
Joanna stuyt dees segenryk taal, ook susters en broedors.
Combini coniugia triumpho gloria.
(These verses are said by Havart to be by Bruno Caulier, son of the
deceased).
Coat of arms with a figure of a Cavalier, in allusion to the deceased's
name. Tho verses may bo translated " Governor Jacques rests
with four of his name, twice two born of different mothers. This
sacred resting place gives an everlasting fame. Joanna closes this
blessed list, also sisters and brothers." In tho Madras Government
records of October 1679 reference is made to Caulier 's death :
41 Munday the 27, Mr. John Bridger not eomrr.ing to touno, it being
very foule weather and Mr. Timothy Wilkes being sick, the
Councell mett not. 30 : This day came nowse of the death of
Jacques Caulier, Director for the Netherlands East India Company
on the coast of Chorowandcll and Governor of their castle Geldria
at Paliacat. Ho departed this life the 25th detto and was buried
ye noxt day. Tho extraordinary great raines which hath fallen,
hath so swollen the rivers that before this day no man could come
from Palicatt hither."
Chief of tho Dutch Factory at Masulipatam, 1609-76, when he was
succeeded by Peter Smit and went as Governor of Pulicat. Caulier
was succeeded at Pulicat on 13th November 1679 by William
Carel Ilartsinck
1519 22nd July Susanna and Jacob Hier leyt bogravon d'oerbaro Susanna Jacobsz, huisvrouw
1681 and Jansz. van Jacob Jansz van Wesol sergiant in dionst dor E. Com-
lst May pagnie out 52 jaron, en getroud geweest 33, overledon den 22
1689. July Anno 1681. Modo rust hier bovengom. Jacob Jansz
van Wosel obyt den Ion Mey Ao 1689 out 77 jaren. (Coat of
arms.)
1520 28th July Albert Van Wede. Hierloit bogravon Albert Van Wede en syn leven coopman
1681. in dionst dor E. Compe en opperhoofd ten comptoire Togene-
patnam geboren tot Uitrogt 1641 den 28e Juni, overleden
1681 28e July oud zynde 40 jaren en 30 dayen.
Van Weede vol van pijn en wede
Terwyl hy leefde op der aard,
Legd onder dese zerk met vrede.
Syn ziel by God ten hemel vaaxd
Bevrijd van moeyte, en pijnlijk wroegen,
Dufl volght na lyden vergenoegen.
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Serial
number.
(i)
Date.
(2)
CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT— cant.
Name. Inscription.
(3) (4)
DUTCH CEMETERY AT PULICAT — cont.
1521
5th April
1684.
Abraham Mbndis
1522
18th May
1684.
Joanna Bolwerk
1523
1524
22nd May
1685.
13th Out.
1688.
CORNBLIS DB LAVER.
Willem and Catha-
rina Van Dielen.
1525
25th July
1695.
CORNELIS
WlEL
Van Der
1526 28th Nov. Gasparus Ingels
1711.
1527 31st Mar. Jan Martensz
1717.
Hior ioght begraven Abraham Mendis in zyn leven vrycoopman
gebooron in do a tat Oetecotta obyt den 5 April 1684 oud 48
iaren.
This stone contains a unique picture of Pulicat Fort. Caatel Geldrift
is seen in tho centre, surrounded by a moat filled with lotuses and
groat fishes, and on the west appear tho houses of tho burghers
without the wall. Oetecotta is mentioned in Fra Bartolomeo's
Voyage to the East Indies. 4 4 Among the towns in Carnada and
Ciolamandale is Ottucotta a solitary castle." Tavornier spells
it Oudecot. Woodecottah is north of the Narnaveram river, 35
miles from Madras.
Hier leght begraven d'eerbare juffrouw Joanna Berio, weduwe
wylen don eorsamen Abraham Florisz Bolwerk in syn
lovon kranckbosoeker tot Masulipatam, geboren binnen
Amiens 17 September Ao 1614 en overledon den 18 May Ao
1684 oud zynde by de 70 jaren. (Coat of arms.)
Kranckbesoeker means " visitor of the sick," a kind of lessor clergy,
man. It differs from the functionary mentioned by Stavorinus
at Chinsurah. " There is no regular Clergyman belonging to this
Church but service is performed by a ziekentrooster, who reads a
sermon on Sunday morning." A ziokentrooster is a person not
in orders, who officiates as Chaplain on board of ships reading
prayers and attending the sick when at tho point of death ; from
this last function he is called ziekentrooster, or literally a com*
forter of the sick." Abraham Bolwerk died at Masulipatam,
September 20th, 1677, aged 68.
Hier leid begraven Cornelis De Laver in zyn leven opperchiru-
rgyn dozes castoels geboren Ao 1647 on overloden den 22 May
1685 oud syndo 44 jaren. Mors certa sed hora mortis incerta.
D'E. Hoor Willem Van Dielen opperkoopman secunde over
Cormandol on opporhoofd van Masulipatnam, &c, goboortig
tot Haarlem den 5 Augusto Ao 1650, en overledon tot Pallia-
catta den 13 8bor Ao 1688, novo us syn dogterjo Catharina
Van Dielen out 5 iaren, on eon soontio out 24 dagen, beyde
kort voor haar vader overledon. (Coat of arms.)
Ho married in Colombo 9th January 1678 Wilhelmina do Witt and
had issue (1) Pieter (2) Catherina and (3) an infant son who died
shortly before his father. His widow married Jacob Paacew [?].
William Van Rheo Chief administrator of the Ceylon Government,
a nativo of Nogapatam born 1st December 1664 married Catherina
Africana of Haarlem on the 13th April 1687 and died 5th November
1700. She was born 7th July 1670 and died 23 April 1700.
Grafstodo van den E. Cornells Van Der Wiel obyt den 25
July Ao 1695. (Coat of arms.)
Hior legt begravon Gasparus Ingels in zyn lovon ondorcoop-
man en secunde ten desen comptoir, gobooren tot Middloburg
den 17 Septembor Ao 1680, ovorleden den 28 November Ao
1711 oud 31 jaren 2 maondon on 1 1 dagen. (Coat of arms.)
Hier onder legd begravon Jan Martensz in syn leven coopman
in dienst dor E. Comp. on opporhooft dosos comptoiros
Palliacatta, aldaar geI>ooren den 21 Juny Ao 1667 en
overledon op ult. Maart Ao 1717 oud 49 iaren 9 maanden on
10 dagen.
Hior rust hy, dio goon rust on had
Zoolango sig bovond in't leven,
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CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT— cont.
Serial JHc. Name. Inscription,
titimbei >
(J) (21 0) <♦>
DUTCH CEMETERY AT PULICAT— raw*.
Dos al het tyd 'lyk mocd 'en zad,
Syn ziol God woder heeft gegeven,
Om mot hem in de eouwigheyd,
Daar hemolingen vreugd t* orven,
To smaakon 'tzalig hey], boroyd
Voor die, de in die Hoc re sterven.
" Hero rests ho who hadjno routing, ho long as he was in life. Weary
and tired with all that was temporal, he hath given his soul
back to Cod in order to inherit with him everlasting joy among
the inhabitants of heaven, and to taste of the blessedness prepared
for those who die in the Lord."
1528 24th June Dirk Both .. Sy suit rusten ende opstaan en uw lot. Dan. 19 vs. 13. Hior
1719, leyt bograven don E. Dirk Both zalr. in syn leven coopman
en opperhoofd ten dosen castolo Geldria tot Palliaoatta,
geboreri t'Utregfc, den 29 Maart 1606, en alhier obyt den 24
Juny Ao 1719 oud 53 iaron 2 maanden en 26 dagen. (Coat
of arms.)
Hot kout gebeent van Both legt onder desen zerk ;
Hy scheyde van't gewoel, en al het Idol-work,
Om aan Gods rogterhand de ruste te verwerven ;
O ! zalig lot van die, die in don Heere sterven.
" The cold bones of Both lio under this slab. He departs from all
turmoil and vanity in order to obtain rest at God's right hand.
O ! blessed is tho lot of thoso that die in the Lord." The most
imposing mausoleum in tho cemetery. It has an open vaulted
roof and rests on twelve arched piers. The superstructure ia
ornamented in stucco, with flying cherubs, flower vases at tho
corner pilasters and surmounting vases.
1529 20th July JSara De Munt Onder dosen zerk logd begravon juflrouw Sara Jorin zalr
1723. huysvrouw van den E. Cornells De Munt, koopman en
opperhoofd ton dosen oastele Geldria tot Palliacatta, nata
den 17 April anno 1681 en obit den 20 July anno 1723 oud 42
iaron 3 maanden en 3 dagen. Weend met den weononden.
Horn 12 vs. 15.
Hior Iegd do Munts vormaak, gonoegon, lust on al
Wat by hem diorbaar was in's werelds tranendal.
Hy treurd in bitt'ron rouw ; holpt syn vorlios bowoonen ;
God sterke synen goost, en wil hem troost vorloonen.
" Hero Munts laid down pleasure, enjoyments, delights and all that
was dear to him in the world's valo of tears. Ho was afflicted in
bitter sorrow ; help to weep his loss. May God strengthen his
soul and deign to give him consolation." Coat of arms with a
coronet.
Adriana SepuHura. Hior legd begravon Anthonia Adriana Maire
dogtorje van den coopman Gooskwyn Maire, opperhoofd
dosos comptoirs Palliacatta geboren don 29en April anno 1724
gestervon den 19en July oud 2 maanden en 20 dagen.
Reynira Onder desen zark legt bograven juffrouw Clasina Reynira
Dallens zaliger huysvrouw van don E. Goosewyn Maire,
koopman on opperhoofd ten desen oastele Geldria tot Pallia-
catta, nata don 23en February Ao 1695, obiit den 17en October
Ao 1725, oud 30 jaron 7 maanden en 24 dagen.
Gosewyn Maire buried his second wife and two children at Masuli-
p a tarn, 1734-5.
1530 19th July Anthonia
1724. Maire.
1531 17th Oct. Clasina
1725. Maire.
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CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT— cont.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
DUTCH CEMETERY AT PULICAT— cow/.
1532 16th Mar. Adriaan Verwky Adriaan Verwky van Amsterdam, geboren 5en October 1697,
1736. and Family. overladen 16 Maart 1736.
Don kranken met Gods woord,
To troosten en to laven,
Was't werk van myn beroop,
Maar niet gewrogt doorgaven,
Die ik daar toe bezat.
Zyt gy door my gestigt,
Dankt Hem, wiens geest, en kragt
Uw ziele heeid verleegt.
Onder desen zerk rust voorn. Adriaan Verwey, in desselfs
lovon krankbezoeker ten dozen comptoiro Palliacatta, met
on benofiens vier zyner kinderen, daarvan eon zoontjo
dood ter weir Id gebragt, tweo zoont jes na den anderen
genoemd Adriaan en een doglerjo gen. Cathaiuna
Amelia.
A very large atone is completely covered with this inscription.
The verses may be translated, u To console and refresh the .sick
with God's word was the work of my calling ; though this was
not wrought through any gifts which I possessed of myself, if
you have been edified through me, thank Him whoso spirit and
power has enlightened your .soul/' Compare the verses in No.
1940, over Abraham Bolwerck another Krank Bezoeker, or visitor
of the sick.
1533 18th Feb. Anna Margaretha Wy vallen af als oen blad. Tesaie 64 vs. 6. Hier legt begraven
1737. Gallart. mejuftrouw Anna Margaretha Moller, zaliger huysvrouwe
van den Hoer Michiel Gallart, coopman en opperhoofd
ten dozen ca&tcele Geldria tot Palliacatta, goboren aan (Jo
Caab do Coede Hoop den 22 April Ao 1687 en alhier ovor-
leden don IS February Ao 1737 oud 49 iaren 9 maanden
en 28 da gen.
Hoer Ga Hart's waardo ogtgonoot,
Ontworsteld van al pyn en woede,
Van horn gescheyden door do dood
Rust onder dozen zark in vreedo.
Gewillig, endo wel bereyd,
Vorhuysd uyt all dit aards gewoemel
Goniot zy nu do zalighoyd
Haar oeuwig orfdeol in den hemel.
" Mynheer Gallart\s worthy spouse, separated from him by death,
and freed from all pain and sorrow, rests in peace under this stone.
Willing and well propared, translated out of earth's turmoil,
she now enjoys blessedness, her eternal inheritance in heaven."
Coat of arms of a crowing cock, in allusion to the name Gallart.
Another Cape of the Good Hope lady lies buried at Colombo in
the person of Anna van Beaumont, wife of Governor John Gideon
Loten, August 10th, 1755. Another lady Catharina AfTricana
Van Rhee 1004, probably had the same origin.
1534 1746 .. Petrtjs Matthetjs .. Het graft van den Heer Petrus Mattheus secundo Ao 1746.
He was apparently buried at Sadras, July 7th 1747 (se3 No. 1675).
1535 1746-1757. Jans Jansz and Hier leyt begraven Jacob Hendrik De Son overledon Ao
Family. 1746 oud 54 jaron. Hier ondor leggen ook begraven Frans
on Jansz gobroedors boyde ovorloden op 16 on 26 Maart
Ao 1757, oud zyndo d'eersto 14 jaren 6 maanden en 1 dag,
d'laastgemdo 17 jaren 5 maanden en 12 dagen. Mitsgadors
meede hier in begraven legt do vader van voormoldo 2 zoonen,
d'Heer Jan Jansz van Nagapatnam in zyn E. leoven out
krankbesoeker ten desen comptoir Palliacatta overleden
den 24 Jan. Ao 1764 and 59 jaren 1 maand en 4 dagen.
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CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT— cont.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
DUTCH CEMETERY AT PULICAT— cont.
1536 9th Doc. Clasina Adriana Hier onder legd begraven Clasina Adriana Ringers huysv-
1754. Topander. rouw van den ondercoopman secunde en fiscaal doses comp.
toirs Palliacatta Jacobus Leonardos Topander, gebooren
te Vlissingen den 12 Maart anno 1718 en alhier overleden
den 9en December Ao 1754 oud synde 36 jaren 8 maanden
en 27 dagen. (Two coats of anus.)
1537 November John Morgan . . Hie in expectatione futurje resurrectionis quiescit Johannes
1760. Morgan centurio Anglican us quondam, obi it anno MDCCLX
in fine Novembris anno LXXVI oetatis suae pietatisque
optima;, patri poni curavit filius Augustus DeMorgan.
John Morgan landed in India July 11th, 1710, as a soldier on board
the Bouwirie. He became Serjeant in the garrison of Fort St.
George and for bravery in action was gazetted Ensign in 1715a
At various times he commanded Fort. St. David and Anjengo.
Ho was commanding at Fort St. David in 1746 when Madras
fell to the French. He retired in October 1748 as Captain on
account of infirmity after 38 years honourable service. He
married firstly Sarah des Pommare\ September 2nd, 1717. She
was a Miss Clark and had married firstly, in November 1706,
Goorge Tourwillo, who died on the " West Coast " (i.e., Sumatra),
and secondly Peter des Pommare\ on November 13th, 1715. Mrs.
Do Morgan died at Cuddalore in 1720 (No. 1204), and h**r hubsand
married secondly Mrs. Tivill, a widow (soe No. 2769). By her
he had four Hons and five daughters. The daughters all married,
the eldest three times and throo out of the other four twice. Their
husbands' names were Callend, De Vonux, Wilson, West, Taylor,
Turing, Innes (soe No. 1270), Campbell, Buchanan and R. T. H.
Maitland. The only surviving son Augustus, a Captain, was
killed before Pondichorry, in 1778 (No. 1270). He was appointed
writer in the year of his father's death, but he was shortly after-
wards transferred to the Artillery. He married Christina Hutte-
man, daughter of the Rev. G. Huttemami of Tranquebar on
July 31, 1768, at Cuddalore. His eldest son George Augustus
De Morgan was born in 1771. He joined the Madias Cavalry
and was killed in action against Tippoo Sultan at Ambur in
1792. John De Morgan, his socond son who also joined the
Madras army, was the father of Augustus De Morgan, the cele-
brated mathematician and logician, for many years professor
of mathematics at University College, London. Ho died at St.
Helena in 1816 on his way to England. Tho mathematician's
son William Frond De Morgan was a novelist. He adopted Art
as a profession and studied at the Royal Academy, subsequently
devoting his attention chiefly to stained-glass work, and then to
ceramic work. His experiments in lustre attracted much atten-
tion among artists. He took to fiction late in life but won a
position rapidly as a novelist of the School of Dickens. Ho
died at the age of 77. The mathematician's younger brother
was Campbell Greig De Morgan (1811 — 1876) who was a surgeon
and who died on April 12, 1876. Their mother was Elizabeth
Dodson whom John de Morgan married at Colombo on August 4 ,
1798.
John Innys married Ann Morgan October 24, 1753. Anne Innia
married James West April 21, 1761. Charles Campbell married
Susanna Morgan on July 4, 1750. Samuel Troutback married
Susanna Morgan March 21, 1726. Mr. John Calland (Sen. Mer-
chant) married Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson (widow) June 11, 1762,
1538 11th Dec. Adriana De Jon- Hier legd begraven mejuffrouwe Adriana Van Son huysv-
1763. cheere. rouwe van don coopman Nicholas De Joncheere secunde
fiscaal en cassier ten deese comptoire overleeden den 11
December 1763 oud 26 jaren 2 maanden 22 dagen.
87
Serial
number
(I)
Date.
(2)
1539
4th April
1777.
1540 1786-87
1541
22nd Sept.
1793.
CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT— conL
Name. Inscription.
(3) (4)
DUTCH CEMETERY AT PULICAT - coti*.
Pktkonella Jacoba Beati qui moriuntur in domino. Hier legd begraven d'eerbare
Tadama. deugd en zooderyke vrouwo Petronella Jacoba Leem-
brugoen zaliger huysvrouwe wylen don Heor Nicolaas
Tadama koopman on opperhoofd dos comptoirs Palliacatta,
geboren te Colombo den 10 Septembr Ao 1753 on op den
4 April Ao 1777 alhier tot Palliacatta in den Heoro onatlapen
oud 23 iaren 6 maandon en 24 dagen hebbende haar zoontje
dat maar vior uuren lang na zyn komete in do wereld in
leven geweest is on waarvan zy op den 28 October 1776
gelugkig verlost was by Haar.
Tomb under a domed canopy. The ornamentation of this slab is
very elaborate. Two cherubs support a memorial tablet, above
which aro tho arms of Tadama and Leembruggen in separate
shields ; the latter a horseman fully accoutred crossing a bridge.
Anna and Peter Dor- Hier leggen Anna Wilhelmina De Vos getrouwe vrouw en
anEUX. Petrus Justinus geliefde zoon van Abraham DoRMiErx
anno 1786/7.
Sara Antonia Hier rust mevrouwe Sara Antonia De Goede echtgenoote van
Eilbracht. den weledelen achtbaaren Heer Jacob Eilbracht, opper-
koopman en gezaghebber in den dienst van de Nederlandsche
Oostindische Compagnio op de cust Cormandel en resorte
van dion etc etc te Palliacatta gebooren den 29 Zoptember
Ao 1751 overleeden don 22 Zoptember Ao 1793.
This tablet is affixed on the fourth step of an obelisk 40 feet high.
Native tradition has it that the deceased lady's coffin hangs from
silver chains inside this immense structure. A curious article on
this subject entitled " A legend of Pulicat " appeared in 1861 in
the " Madras Athenteum."
A similar story is told of a Dutch tomb at Negapatam which is said
to contain tho body of a sea Captain seated in a chair and slung
from chains. See also No. 1151.
1542 Undated . . Claes Eobbrsen
1543 4th Aug. Charles Delon
1800.
1544 27th July Chabuds Latouche
1809.
1545 13th Nov. P. Brosettb . •
1809.
Het graght van Claes Egbersen.
[Mr. Charles Delon, aged 72 years.]
TJrquhart says "he is supposod to have been the first printer who
introduced the art of printing at Madras, and had retired from
business upwards of thirty years before his death on a . pension
from Government, which is continued to his aged widow.'* The
tombstone has now vanished, but it was probably in this Dutch
cemetery among the English dead, some of whom have annexed
blank portions of Dutch grave stones for recording their epitaphg.
Mrs. Elizabeth Delon died June 5th, 1810.
At St. Thome, Mrs. Mary Taillard, aged 66 years, widow of the late
Dr. J. Francis Taillard and daughter of the late Monsieur Charles
Delon, died on April 10, 1820.
«' Delon, Charles, formerly kept a printing office, Pondicherry, 1760. '
from E. I. Kalondar for 1791.
" Andrew Delon— Printer, 1808 " (Madras Almanac, 1808).
(At Pulicat, Doctor Charles Latouche.)
(At Pulicat, Lieutenant
Prisoner of War.)
P. Brosette, Engineer and Dutch
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Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
(3)
Inscription.
(4)
SECOND DUTCH CEMETERY AT PULICAT.
P. E. Van Hogendorp (who wat* of good family) was for the time being Governor of Pulicat after the temporary restoration
of Pulicat to the Dutch. Canterviacher is also mentioned. Pulicat Church was assisted by Vepery for many years ;.
the connection being formed in the time of Fabricius (Taylor's memoir of the Vepery Mission, page 1 10).
1546
1547
1548
20th Sept.
1631.
3rd July
1639.
Pibter Van Suylen.
Dirck Jansz
1st July
1643.
PlETKR BOREEL
1549
16th July
1643.
Arent Gardenys
1550 1644 and Children of Willem
1653. Tack and Pieter
KOLFENAER.
1551 14th Oct.
1645.
1552 25th April
1646.
1553 1st Oct.
1646.
1554 22nd Oct.
1646.
1555 5th Aug.
1647.
Andries Jansen
Hier leyt begraven Pieter Van Suylen sey vendrichs, over-
leden den 20 September 1631.
Sey vendrichs " sea ensign."
Hier leyt begraven Dirck Jansz, sohilder van Delft in den
Heere ontslapen den 3 dagh der maent July int jaer ons
Heeren 1639, oudt 36 jaren.
Schilder " painter."
Hier leght begraven Mr. Pieter Boreel, Doctor in beyde de
rechten on Heer van Welthoven, int landt gecomen met
Achillo in den jare 1642, in qualiteyt van extraordinares
Raedt van India en naer bereghtinge van syne commissi©
op Ceeylon als in Goa, alhier in den Heer ontslapen 1 July
Anno 1643, out synde 45 jaer. (Coat of arms).
William Boreel, envoy from the United Provinces to England, was
knighted by James I in 1619. He was pensionary of Amsterdam
in 1628, and Dutch ambassador to Venice 1630, Sweden 1640,
England 1642 and France 1648. He was created a Baronet by
Charles I in 1645, and the Baronetcy is still held by his descendant,
who resides in Holland.
See W. Foster's * The English Factories in India, 1642—45/
page 149 and note.
Hier loght begravend'E. Hour Arent Gardenys, Ao 1625 in
qualite van ondercoopman met't schip Schiedam in India
gecomen onde in den Heere ontslaepen ady 16 July Ao 1643,
out synde 38 jaren in qualite van Ordinaris Root van India,
Gouverneur end© Direeteur doser custe Choromandel en den
aencleven van dion. (Coat of arms.)
Hier leyt begraven een kint van Willem Williems Tack Ao
] 044. Hier leyt mede begraven een doghtertjen van Pieter
Kolfenaer van Antwcrpen Ao 1653. Noch een jonger
dochter van denselvon.
Hier legt begraven Andries Jansen van Amser out 38 jaeren,
ady 14 Octol)er Ao 1645 in Heere gerust.
Pieter Van Nieudorp Hier leght begraven Pieter Van Nieudorp, in leve opperchirur-
gyn ten dionate van Generale Vereenichde Nederlandsche
OstendiHche Compe int casteel Geldria, obyt 25 April Ano
1646, out synde 51 jaren.
Arent Van Tol
Aert Pleunen
Marten Jansen
Hier leght begraven Arent Van Tol van Coudekerk, in syn
loven coopman ten diensto van D'E. Oost India Compagnie,
adi primo Octobr Ao 1646 in den Heere gerust, oudt synde
31 jaren.
Hier leyt begraven Aert Pleunen d'jonge, geboren den 17
December 1642, gestorven den 22 Oct Ao 1646 in Paliacat.
Hier leyt begraven Marten Jansen van Noyen, in syn leven
ondercoopman overleden den vyfden Agusty des jaers 1647,
out synde omtrent 46 jaren.
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number.
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Date.
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Name. Inscription.
(3) (4)
SECOND DUTCH CEMETERY AT PULICAT— cont.
1556
1557
1558
1559
1560
14th Sept.
1647.
21st Oct.
1647.
5th Nov.
1651.
22nd Feb.
1654.
18th Sept.
1655.
Adriana and Johan-
nes Abbbyl.
Gabriel and Johanna
Eibeeok.
Jacob Harevier and
Family.
Johannes Kercker-
ing.
Madalena and Abra-
ham Christiaensen.
1561
25th May
1676 and
6th April
1700.
Thomas De Mey.
Susanna Pietarsz.
Susanna Haokaert.
1562 12th Mar. Jacob and Maria
1682. Claasz.
1563 1st Mar. Louys Mendis
1686.
1564 8th Jan. Hans and Dominga
1700. Wolf.
Hier is begraven Adriana Poots Van Der Gouw, out 26 jeer,
huisvrouw van den Eerw. Predicant D. Johannes Abreyl,
gestorven den 2£n May 1653, met hare jongen soon Johannes,
out 16 meenden, overleden 14 September Ao 1647.
Hier is begraven Gabriel Eibeeok, gebooren den 19 Novem-
ber Ao 1646, gestorven den 21n October Ao 1647 in't casteel
Geldria, en syen moeder Johanna Pieters, huisvrou gew.
van de opperchirurgyn Jochim Eibeeok, gestorven den 13
May Ao 1667, out 56 jaar.
Hier leyt begraven Jacob Harevier van Noormandyen, oudt
40 jaren, in syn leven Sergant overleden den 5 November
Ao 1651, nevens zyne kinderen gen. Catharina, Philippe
ende Gblimette en Maria.
Hier legt begraven Johannes Kerckerino van Banda, in syn
leven adsistent in dienste der V. V. N. G. O. Compage, over-
leden den 22 Februwario Anno 1654, out synde 23 jaren.
Hier leyt begraven Madalena De Silva overleden den 23en
January Ao 1642, beneffens hsere 3 kinderen, mitsgaders
haeren man gent. Abraham Christiaensen van Wesel,
oudt omtrent 55 jsBren, in syn leven Sergeandt in dienste
van d'E. Oostindische Compagnia, den 18en September
Anno 1655 in den Heere ontslapen.
Hior leyt begraven Susanna De Mey, wede wyln Hendrick
Pietarsz, geboren Ao 26, wede geworden int 27e jaer hares
ouderdoms, exemplaer lyk in dien st»t geleeft 23 jaren en
godsaliclyk in den Heere gerust den 25 Mey Ao 76. Hier
lagen alvoorens mede begraven hser vader Thomas De
Mey ende haar moeder Luzia Vas. Hier legt noch begraven
Susanna Maria De Mey, huysvrouw van den ondercoopman
en fiscrol deses Compts Dirk Hackaert, int craembedt over-
leden den 6 April Ao 1700, oudt synde 20 jaoren, een m»nt en
4 dagen. Salich zyn die in don Heere gerust zyn, want hare
wercken die volgen haBr na. Apoo 14. Christus is myn
opstanding. (Coat of arms.)
Hier onder leyt begraven de eerbare juffrouw Maria Dieer,
huysvrouw van Jacob Claasz, overleden den 12 Meert Anno
1682, en den eersamen Jacob Claasz, in syn leven Soldt in
dienst der E. Compe, obyt don 24en April Anno 1697.
Hier leyt begraven Louys Mendis, in syn leven vrycoopman,
overleden primo Msert Anno 1686.
Hier onder begraven Monsr Hans Wolf van Wirtsburgh in zyn
leven vaandrager in dienst der E. Comp. Obyt den 12 Octo-
br Ao 1699. Alsmede leyt begraven juffrouw Dominoa
Rodriego, huysvrouw van den bovengenoemde vandr.
obijt den 8 January Ao 1700.
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, PULICAT (KOTTA CUPPAM HAMLET).
1565 4th Jan. Peter Paul Flagman, Peter Paul Flagman died on Saturday at 4 o'olook on 4th
1777. January 1777 born at Pulicat on 23rd Ootober 1699. Those
who see this epitaph will pray for his soul our One Father.
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Name. Inscription,
(3) (4)
DUTCH CEMETERY AT S ADR AS.
Sadras or in Tamil Saduray is situated on the sea coast about 35 miles south of Madras. Its name was probably shaped into
the usual form by a sort of conformity with Madras or Madraspatam. It was made a settlement by the Holland East India
Company in 1 647. Valentijn, the Dutch historian (1726), gives a fanciful derivation for the word (page 11). 44 It is 20
miles (Dutch) north of Teganapatnam, real name Sadrangapatnam, but shortly Sadrampatnam and generally Sadraspat-
nam. In Tellinga it signifies the name of the founder, and in Persian thousand difficulties or the Sjah Bord by us called
the Chess board." The only historical fact of any political importance connected with it is tho abortive peace conference
between the French and the English, which held its sittings here in January 1754. The English deputies were Messrs.
Palk and Vansittart, those of the French, Father Lavaur, Superior of tho French Jesuits in India, M. Kerjean, Dupleix*s
nephew and M. Bausset, a member of council at Pondicherry. Sadras was taken by the British in 175)5, but restored to the
Dutch in 1818. It finally passed into British possession in 1824, along with the rest of the Dutch Settlements in India,
exchangod for others lying mostly in Sumatra. The old Dutch cemetery within the Fort is still maintained in order
under treaty.
41 The town is now in decay : there was formerly a small fort, surrounded by a brick wall, about fifteen feet high, on one side
close to the soa. This was seized by Lally at the siege of Madras, in violation of the Dutch neutrality, and formed into a
depot of stores. It is now in ruins. A range of houses faced tho three land sides of the fort at a small distance. They are
rapidly decaying and the inhabitants are retiring to more flourishing stations.'* (February 7, 1807. Lord Valentine's
Travels, page 330).
" From Tirepoplier one comes over Poelejere, Poelemcer and Alembrue to Sadraspatam, where our people have a logie."
(Baldams, page 158).
44 Sadras is a large but poor-looking town, once a Dutch Settlement and still containing many families of decayed burghers
like those of Ceylon, the melancholy relics of a ruined factory. Some of them have little pensions from the Charity of the
British Government and there is a Dutch missionary a very poor and modest and apparently a good man, who lives among
them, does duty in Dutch and Portuguese, and has a little achool for both Christian and Heathen children. His salary is
paid by a religious society in the Netherlands" ( Heber's Journal, March 15, 1826).
1566 14th Mar.
1670.
Ammarentia
SIN OK.
Hem-
,567
25th Oct.
1679.
Bakent Clebout
J 568 24th Fob.
1682.
PlETER HEMSINCK
Hier leyt begraven Ammarentia Blockhovius geboren den
21en Juny Ao. 1644 tot Hoorn huysvrouw van Lambert
Hemsinck ondercoopman en opperhooft desea comptoirs
overloden den 14 Marty Ao. 1670, out 25 jaoren 8 msenden 21
dagen nevens heor Jochtertion, den len February bevorens
doot ter werelt gebraght.
Hier rust Ammarentia, wiens doot der veel beschreyden
Hser lichsem bracht een Ziel, en scheyde met haer beydon'
De Mceder in de kraam, en voor de tyt het vint, '
So dat does Zielen twee haer Lichsems rust hier vint.
In the Coat of Arms, thero is on one side 3 finh of different sizes and
on the other side Eagle.
Her son Lambert Hemsinck died at Palacole in Godaverv NovAm
ber 9th, 1661.
Senor Lambert Hemsinck was chief of Sadrasspatam in Aug. J 684.
Hier leyt begraven de manhaften Barent Clebout in syn
loven eersto Kapitein en Mayoor der Coylonse Militie in
dienst der Vereonigde Nederlandse Oostindische Compagnie
obyt den 25 October anno 1679 oud 56 iaren.
The coat of arms has 3 spears and 1 Handed Sword.
Hier legt begraven Pieter Hemsinck jongman geboren ten
desen contoire Zadrangapatnam den 3en Augusti 1665
overloden den 24en February 1682. Out zynde 16 jaren 6
maenden, 21 dagen. '
This is a large slab raised on six stone pedestals above the slab
commemorating Ammarentia Hemsinck noted above. The ur>
part bears a coat of arms on a shield surmounted by a ei^t
The crest is an egret, and the quarterings on the shield are also an
egret, a five-pointed flower and three stars. At the sides of the
coat of arms is written " Hodie mihi eras tibi." Below thi *
large Roman capitals is written " Neemt Ghy Acht ? »• and th" 1
in italics the following verses, below which is in capitals " Wai**
den Mensch " 18
Wiens Ruststee ditto moge syn
Weet dan I tis PIETER HEMSINCK. Fyn
Eenen Blcem 1 van Ionge Gees ten,
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Date.
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CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT — cont.
Name, Inscription.
(3) (4)
DUTCH CEMETERY AT SADRAS — cont.
Seerge-acht byde miiiat en meesten,
Door Deugden ! die de Faem droegvert !
Hier leyt syn Romp ! mcer blyft in't hert
Gegryft, wiens oogh dees Bloom besat.
Oock in syn Wandel Vreughden hadt,
Soodat Lof, Vreed' en CWigheyt,
Noyt vergeet Heyd' of Christenheyt.
Hy ! wien't Vernuft scheen hooggestelt,
Leght lag*! O Doodt ! te Vrcegh gevelt.
Sodat het Lichaem hier beneen,
Met Mceder, Suster rust by een,
Wions Zielen drie syn opgegaon,
Om's hemels Croon van Godt t'outfcen.
1569
2nd Aug.
and 2nd
Oct.
1687 and
15th Jan.
1705.
Maarten, Joannes
and Marcus Van
den Briel.
1570 1695
Abraham Witmont
1571
20th April
1714.
Dirk Van Cloon
1572 22nd Sept. Cornelis van Out-
1723. velt.
Onder dese zark leggen begraven Maarten, Joannes on Mar-
cus Van den Briel, vader en zoons. Dan eerste alhier
geweest zynde fiscaal en pakhuysmeister oud 64 jaron over-
leden den 2 October Ao. 1687. Don tweeden is alhier geweest
koopman en secunde van noorder Chormandel oud 43 jaren
overleden den 15 January 1705. En den laasten hier geweest
zyndo eerste clerk oud 23 jaren overledon den 2 Augusto
Ao. 1687.
Tho coat of arms has 2 headed eagle, a horse and lozenges.
Other Van den Briels are buried at Masulipatam, 1679 and 1685.
Begraaf Plaats van Abraham Witmont opperhooft deses
contoirs zyn familie bestaande in zyn tweedo huysvrouw,
twee zoonen, en een dophter van dien bedde als har susters
dogter Anno 1695.
This also bears a coat of arms in a circle. An Oliver Witmont died
at Tutioorin, June 8th, 1736 (No. 2590).
Mors rognavit in eum qui non peccavit ad similitudinem trans -
gressionis Adami. Hier legt begraven het eerst geboren
zoontie van Mr. Dirk Cloon, opperhooft deses comptoirs, en
door desselfs huysvrouw op don 20 April 1714, dood tor werelt
gebragt. Nog legt hier begraven het tweede zoontie van
zyne E. bovengemelt dat door zyn huysvrouw S jaars daaraan
op den 16 November dood ter werelt gebragt is.
Hier word des vader's hoop en's mooder's troost beschreyt
Wide ziel die ten Hemel toog sig daar vorbleyt
Hier siet men d'Engelen vol wemoet bittor schreyen
Omdat de wrede dood het leven afging snyen
Vande onnosel heyt vant eerst geboorno zoon
Van vtouw Anthonia en Mr Dirk van Cloon.
Romans V. 14.
The Coat of arms has Crown,
2 Columns,
2 Leopards.
Hier rust Cornelis van Outvelt, in zyn leven onderkoopman
enopperhoofdin's Comps. dienst ten desen comptoire Sadras-
patnam, gebooren tot Middelburg in Zeeland den 15 Augustus
in't jaar onses Heeren 1675, of 1677, gestorven den 22 Septem-
bris des jaars 1723 oud 46 of 48 jaaren een maand en seven
dagen.
" Salig zyn de doode, die in den Heere sterven, van nu aan ja
Segt de Geest, op dat sy rusten mogen van haren arbeyd,
ende hare werken volgen met haar 99 Openbaringe 14, Vrs. 13.
vol. n — 12a
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CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT — cont.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
DUTCH CEMETERY AT SADRAS — cont
1573 8th Jan. David Davidbz. Hier onder leggen begraven David Davidsz vryborger obiit
1725. Cathabina Davidsz. den 8 January Ao. 1725. Rbinieb Jacob Devos, in zyn
Reenieb Jacob leven, boekhoudor in dienst der E. Comp. alhier ten comptoire
Dbvos. Sadrasp. bescheyden, natus den 24 Dec. Ao. 1691, en obiit
onder deselve dagteeckeninge in't jaar 1726. Cathabina Ma-
bia Davidsz nata den 8 Aug. Ao. 1703 on obiit den 13 April
Ao 1725 mitsgaders deser beyde drie kinderen : Abbaham,
natus den 22 September Ao. 1719 en obiit den 11 April Ao.
1721, Mabia, nata den 30 Decern. Ao. 1720 obiit den 13
Maart Ao. 1724 en Reinieb Jacob, natus den 20 Maart Ao.
1725 en obiit den 11 December daaraan.
Coat of arms and the following verse from Job. 14.2 : 14 DenMeneche
komt voord als een Blceme, en word afgesneden, ook vlugt hy ale
eene Schaduwe en bestaat niet " (see No. 2457).
1574 22nd Dec. Gustavus Gouds Hier legt begraven den E. Gustavus Gouds, in desselfs leven
1737. boekhouder en secunde ten desen comptoire Sadraspatnam,
gebooren tot Rofors in Zweeden den 22 December Ao. 1690,
en alhier overleden den 22 December Ao. 1737 oud 47 jaren
en 20 dagen.
The slab covering this grave bears a coat of arms not enclosed in
any border, and below it the following words : 44 Als de doodo rust
eoo laat ook zyne gedagtenisse rusten. Jesu Sirach, 38. 24.'»
(Ecclesiasticus 38. 23. When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance
rest). Then follow these lines :
Dees Zark Bedekt eon Man,
Die na Verlossing Haakte,
Om Naar het Vaderland
Te Keeren, Maar de Dood
Sneed af zyn Leven's Draad
Soo Dat hy Hior Geraakte
In't graf ter Zalige Rust.
De Ziel in Abram's schoot,
Geniet in Heerlykheyd,
Verzadigd Door Aanschouwen,
Het Eeuwig Heyl, dat Wy
Verwagten en Vert rou wen.
44 This slab covers a man who longed after deliverance to return to
his fatherland ; but death cut off the thread of his life, so that he
got here in the grave into blessed rest. Ho possesses his soul in
Abraham's bosom in glory, satisfied through beholding the eternal
bliss that wo expect and trust in."
Immense Tomb.
Trees 5 rows of 9, one row of three.
1575 7th July Petbus Matthaeus. Onder desen zark rust Petbus Matthaeus in desselfs leven
1747. ondercoopman en opperhoofd deses comptoirs Porto Novo
gebooren tot Hoorn den 16n Novber Ao. 1718 en alhier
overleden den 7 July Ao. 1747, oud 28 jaren 7 maanden en 21
dagen. Salig zyn de doode, diein den Heeresterven. Openb.
14. 13.
1576 5th Feb. Elizabbtha Floben- Onder desen zarke rust het lyk van Elizabettha Flobendina
1752, dina Babonesse Babonesse van Maneil, zaliger gemalinne van den Heer
van Maneil. Janapengh gebooren tot Groeningen den 18 December Ao.
1718, op de reyse van Malacca, Pr. het schip Slooten naar
dese Chormandelse custe overleden, den 5n February Ao.
1752, en den's daaraan alhier ten Nederlandsen comptoire
Sadraspatnam, aan de wal gebragt, en ter aarde besteld,
oud 33 jaren. De Gedagtenisse des Regtvad ingou sal tot
Zegiwage zyn. Provb. 19 Vs. 7.
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Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
1577
28th May
1767, etc.
1578
22nd May
1769 and
28th Jan.
1773.
1579
20th Feb.
1790.
1580 Undated.
CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT — cont.
Name. Inscription.
(3) (4)
DUTCH CEMETERY AT SADRAS — cont.
Jacobus Leonardus
Topandeb.
Jacob Pieter Deneys
and Family.
Petrus Hoixebeek.
Anna Cornelia
Dumon.
Anna Catharina
Simons.
Mauris
Duthiel.
Teesar
Hier rust don E. Heer Jacobus Leonardus Topander, koop-
man in dienst der E. Coinp. geboren te Amsterdam don 22
April 1715, overleden als opporhoofd deses comptoirs Sadras-
patnam den 28 May Ao. 1767, oud 52 jaar 1 maand en 6 dagen.
Zo mede zyn Eds. jongste dogter mojuffrouw Esther Clasina
waarde ogtgenooto van den E. Heer Mr. Jacob Pieter
Deneys ook koopman en opperhoofd des gem. comptoirs
geboren tot Palliacatta don 16 Nov. Ao. 1754 overleden
den 6 April 1780, oud 25 iaren en 5 maandon. Mitsgaders
eerst gen. zyn Eds. kleen end andere hun Eds. zoontje
van wien ged. mejuffrouw voor de zevende en laaste niaal
alhier int zolve jaar op den 27 Maart golukkig is in de kraam
bevallen gen. Jan Leonard overleden den 28 January
1781 oud 10 maanden on een dag. Sic transit gloria mundi.
A largo slab with coat of arms and crest (an eagle with outstretched
wings) in circular ornamental bonier with splendid edging of
flowers, fruits and cherubs heads. Mr. Deneys has five children
buried at Jagannaikerpuram (see also No. 2491 ).
One Letrecht Cornelius Topander diod at Jaggernauthporam in his
67th year. He was one of the oldest Civil Servants in the Dutch
Company (Asiatic Journal, July 1816). See No. 1717.
Hier rusten mejuffrouw Anna Cornelia Bonk huisvrouw van
den Heer Johannes Dumon onderkoopman secunde en
cassier ten deson comptoire Jaggemaikpoeram, geboren te
Nagapatnam den 18 November Ao. 1743, on alhier overleden
don 28 January 1773 oud 29 jaren 2 maanden 10 dagen. En
d' Heer Petrus Hollebeek in syn leven boekhouder in
dienst der E. Comp. gebooren te Palliacatta den 28 April
1729 en overleden don 22 Mey 1769 oud 40 jaren en 24 dagen.
Beter is de dag des doods dan die dor geboorte. Hior onder
logd begraven mojuffrouw Anna Catharina Campie, eerst
getrouwt geweest zyndo met voorm. Heer Iopander en
daarna met den Heer Joan Daniels Simons, koopman en
opperhoofd deses comptoirs gebooren te Palliacata den 10
April Ao. 1736 en alhier overleden den 20 February 1790,
oud 53 jaren 10 maandon en 10 dagen.
Hier leyt begraven Jonkheer Mauris Teesar Duthiel, Captain
in dienst der E. Compe.
Two winged gryphons supporting a crown with three rooms.
GOVERNMENT CEMETERY AT SADRAS.
1581 23rd Sept.
1760.
Madame Duyvenek.
1582 13th Aug.
1772.
Ls. Vn. Mispelaar
Hier in leyt begraven D'huysvrouw van den boekhouder en
scriba ten desen comptoire Simon Duyvenek oud 26 jaren
2 maanden en 6 dagen. Obit den 23 September Ao 1760.
The name of the lady is not given. Covering this tomb is a slab
having at the western extremity a headstone and a large tablet
thereon on which is the above inscription in diamond form sur-
mounted by a skull and crossbones. Below this are the words
" hodie mini eras tibi '* and at the foot " memento mori " beneath
an hour glass, with wings.
Hier in rust L B . V*. Mispelaar in leven bootsman in Comps
dienst en equipagie opzigter alhier, geboren te Ameret de 13
November 1716, overleden de 13 Aug. 1772 oud 55 iaren 9
maanden.
Hour glass and wings. Iassre* en y Gedt Sten Soon Vader On Sentyd.
The Christian name is given in the abbreviated form Ls. It may be
Lucas. He was boatman and overseer of the crew.
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Serial
number.
(i)
Date.
(2)
CHINGLEPUT DISTRICT — cont.
Name. Inscription.
(3) (4)
GOVERNMENT CEMETERY AT SADRAS — cont.
1583 14th June
1789
1584 10th Nov.
1790.
1585 26th Sept.
1818.
Harmen Hendriksz.
Johanna Rosin a
Benjamin.
Johannes Willem
Reoel.
1586 1st Jan.
1825.
Elvina Van Sohsten.
1587 11th Aug.
1825.
Mary Cctnliffe
1588 16th Mar.
1855.
Eduard Theodosius
Perbgrinus
Baerlien.
Harmen Hendriksz in synleven bootsman in's Komps dienst.
geboren dn 6 Jany 1736 te Groeningen en obit 14 Juny 1789»
Kostelyk is in de oogen dos Heeren de dood zyner gunstge-
nooten. Ps. 116. 15.
The quotation from the Psalms is " Precious in the sight of the
Lord is the death of his saints.' '
Johanna Rosina Benjamin de dogter van Appolles Benjamin
oud zynde 12 jaren 9 maanden en 14 dagen gebooren den 25
January 1778 en overleden den 10 November 1790.
Hier leyd begraven de Dochter van Appolles B. genaamt
Johannes Ter gedagtenisse van Johannes Willem 3 de zoont-
je van den weledele Heer F. C. Reoel opperhoofd van de
Neederlandso possession ter kuste Cormandel en Madura en
mevrouwe F. W. Reoel desselfs gemalinne, geboren den 9
September 1817 overleden 26 Sept. 1818 oud 1 jaar en 17
daagen.
Ter gedagtenis van Ja. M. Elvina Vansohsten dogter van den
weledelen gestorven Heer H. F. Vansohsten Nederlandse
opperhoofd ter kuste Cormandel en Madura en dezelfs de
beminde mevrouw Anna Pochont, geboren te Jaggennaik*
poeram den 28 April 1823, overleden te Sadras den 1 January
1825.
God wenkte ; een Engel boog zig. Ga !
Voer Straks dit Wigtjo omhoog.
Zo sprak de Almagtige en weldra
Wast' lieve Wigtje omhoog.
" God beckoned ; an angel bowed. Go ! bring presently this little
one above. Thus spoko the Almighty and soon was the little one
above." In the curious manuscript register of Cuddaloro Church
kept by the Rev. I. G. Holzberg is recorded the marriage of Henry
Francois Vansohsten, Esq., bachelor of Pondicherry, to Anna
Pochont (No. 1718), January 20th, 1817. Among the witnesses
to the ceremony were two retired officers of the Regiment de Mou-
ron, Captain Nicholas Francois Julos do Bergeon,who had married,
April 27th, 1805, Jacoba Elizabeth Vansohsten " a native of
Ceylon," and Frederick do Casselli, who had married, November
180(5, Mile Perronille (Petronella) de Mouron, youngest daughter
of the late Lieutenant-Colonel H. D. do Meuron, '* of H.M. Swiss
Regiment." Colonel de Mouron commanded Pondicherry in
1802 during the English occupation and died at Seringapatam,
September 23rd, 1804.
At Pondicherry 17 Dec. 1826. D. H. C. Elvina [?] Vansohsten nee
a Sadras le 27 Janvier 1825, morte a Pondichery lo 17 Deoombre
1820. [Mon auge cheric je te repellerai lontemano. ?]
Beneath this stone are deposited the remains of Mary wife of
Brooke Cunliffe, Esq., H.C. Civil Service, who departed
this life August 11th 1825 in the 32nd year of her age.
Brooke Cunliffe, Senior, was the father of Brooke Cunliffe, Junior
who married, April 9th, 1849, Mary, daughter of Major F. C.
Cotton of the Engineers and was the contemporary and friend of
W. C. Oswell, C.S. (see No. 380).
On Feb. 5, 1827, Brooke Cunliffe of the C.S. was married to Mis*
Rayson.
Brooke Cunliffe Junior was probably the son referred to in the
Asiatic Journal (March 1816) born on 6 Aug. 1815 at Virda-
ohillum.
Brook Cunliffe had a daughter born at Virdachillum on November 5„
1816. (Asiatic Journal, June 1817).
Hie requiescit in Deo EduARD Theodosius Pbregrintjs Baer-
lien nat 12-1-1834 in Madras Obiit 16-3-1855 in Sadras
Ev. Joh. II. 25.
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Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
COIMBATORE DISTRICT.
Name.
(3)
Inscription.
(4)
COIMBATORE TOWN.
1589
13th Dec.
1783.
R. Temple
1590
1591
1592
1593
1594
11th Sept.
1812.
12th Mar.
1814.
8th Feb.
1820.
3rd July
1821.
1st June
1828.
Captain R. Temple, killed, 13 Dec. 1783.
Large square tymb in a cotton field on the right of Uteri (r^rt- track)
leading to Soonanaiekarpalayam off the Mettupalayam road within
a mile of the Coimbatore toll-gate. The inscription is of rude type
of different sizes and the ofhcer commemorated was probably
killed at the siege of Coimbatore.
(At the Guzzlehutty Pass, Ensign W. Clover, 1st Batt.
Pioneers.)
He joined the army as Cadet in 1809 and was Ensign October 4,
1809.
. . Aaron Tozer, Surgeon.
He married Miss Mary Mackenzie, October Kith, 1799, who died at
Chittoor, September 27th, 1817.
Colin William Colin Gordon, aged 21 years.
A young writer.
John Augustus John Augustus, son of John Sullivan, aged 6 months and
Sullivan. 27 days. ,
John Sullivan, C.S., Member of Council in 1839, married, February
2nd, 1820, Henrietta, daughter of William Harington, Senior, C.S.
(No. 543). See No. 2075.
William Glover
Aaron Tozer
William
Gordon.
Rosa Morris
1595 28th May Henry Wallis
1829.
Rosa Sarah, daughter of John Carnac Morris, aged 4 months
and 13 days.
J . C. Morris born 1 6 October 1 798 was the second son of Mr. John
Morris and Sarah Mackay, daughter of Mr. George Mackay,
member of Council in 1777, by Sarah, sister of Mr. William Strat-
ton of Surat. He married, February 4th, 1823 at Madras,
Rosanna Curtig Cherry, second daughter of the well-known Peter
Cherry of the Madras Civil Service. He died in England, August
2nd, 1858 in Jersey. He was buried at St. Heliers. His song
are Prof. Edw. Morris (d. 1902), Professor of English Literature at
Melbourne University ; Father John Morris, the celebrated Jesuit,
Sir Malcolm Morris, K.C.V.O., F.R.C.S.E., and Henry Morris*
M.C.S. Father John Morris was born at Ootacamund, on 4th
July 1820. Ho died at W'imbledon, 22 October 1893 while
preaching in the church. John Morris, father of John Carnac
Morris, has a tablet (right hand side upstairs on first window) in
Marylebono church, thus inscribed : " Sacred to the memory of
John Morris, Esq., of Baker Street, Portnaan Square, formerly
of the Bombay Civil Service and for many years a Director of
the Ea«t India Company. Born 16 August 1763, .died at
Leamington, Warwickshire, 27 July 1840. Also to Sarah Morris,
wife of John Morris, Esq., died October 1st, 1831 in her 59th
year." Robert Grey Morris, Bo.C.S., died 19th October J 819,
aged 27 years. Frederick John Morris, B.C.S., died at Chander.
pore near Balasore 10th May 1845 in 36th year of his age.
Lieutenant Robert Morris of tho Bengal artillery died at the
attack on Fort Bela in the First Mahratta War, about 8
miles from Kunch, a village in the Jalaun district, Bundelkund.
He commanded a detachment of the 2nd Company of the 3rd
Battalion Bengal Artillery " in action with Meer Khan Pindari
near Koonch." Fivo guns were lost in this action.
Miss Jane Morris married Mr. John Kiekwick Farriar, Major, 6th
Light Cavalry. (Asiatic Journal, March 1816.)
Henry Wallis, Captain, 15th Regiment, aged 42 years.
He was cadet in 1805, Lieutenant March 16, 1811 and Captain
May 1, 1824.
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COIMBATORE DISTRICT — cord.
Serial Date. Name. Inaoription.
number,
(1) (2) (3) ( 4 >
COIMBATORE TOWN — cont
1596 9th June Arthur Saunders Arthur Saunders Gore, Ensign, 26th Regiment, aged 22
1829. Gore. years.
He was cadet in 1825 and Ensign on January 8, 1826.
1597 23rd May Joseph Anthony Captain Joseph Anthony, 6th Regiment M.N.I.
1830.
He was cadet in 1807, Lieutenant October 2, 1812 and Captain
January 20, 1824.
1598 6th Aug. Richard Clive . . Sacred to the memory of Richard Clive, Esq., of the Madras
2831. Civil Service, who departed this life on the 6th day of August
A.D. 1831 in the 39th year of his age.
The Clive family has become illustrious in India by the heroism,
valour and statecraft of the first Lord Clive, Governor of Bengal
and founder of the British Empire in India. But his descendants
appear mostly to have lived their official lives only in Madras,
his first love. Madras it was that discovered the true merits of
Clive, and it is small wonder, therefore, that his descendants should
have chosen the Madras Presidency for their oivil employ. Of the
first Lord Clive little need bo said now. His is an imperishable
name in the history of India ; or rather, in that of the British
Empire. But writing only of things locally connected with him,
it must be mentioned that Writers' Building in Fort St. George ,
in a house opposite to which he is known to have lived after his
marriage to Miss Margaret Maskelyn, is closely connoctod with
him. A street called after him, Clive street, is popular in Old
Town, Cuddalore, where he was at one time Deputy Governor.
Besides those, thero is nothing in Madras city (excepting his pic-
ture by Thomas Day in Government House) or in the mofussil,
so far as is known, connected with his name. That is, to say the
least, somewhat remarkablo for one who, to adopt the language
of Macaulay, though not without his faults, was both a great sol-
dier and a great administrator.
By his wife Margaret Maskolyno, he left Edward, born March 7,
1754 ; Rebecca, born September 15, 176*0 ; Charlotte, born January
15, 1762 ; Margaret, born August 15, 1763 ; and Robert, born
August 31, 1769. (Malcolm's Clive : Vol. Ill, p. 387.)
dive's wife lived to a great ago and died on 28th December 1818 in
the 84th year of hor age at Oakley Park near Luddow. (Asiatic
Journal, February 1818.)
Edward Lord Clive, his eldest son and heir, bocamo Governor of
Madras in 1798. He was Governor during the Mysore War, to
mark the successful termination of which he built the Banqueting
Hall in Madras in 1801. There is a tradition current amongst the
Indians of Madras that he caused the removal of the Chonna-
kosava Perumal temple from the beach opposite Fort St. George
to the interior of the town, about 1 800, paying a large compensation
as an inducement to the temple authorities. The now well-known
Buckingham Canal was commenced during his time, and was
known then as the Clive Canal, after him. The battery on the
north Georgetown Road, close to the Harbour, is named after
him. He married, on the 7th May, 1784, Henrietta Antonia, daugh-
ter of Henry Arthur Herbert, Earl of Powis, and sister and heir of
George Edward Henry Arthur, the last Herbert Earl of Powis,
by whom he had two sons and two daughters. His son and heir
was Edward, Second Earl of Powis, and his younger brother
Robert Henry, born on the 15th January, 1789, married on the
19th June 1819, Harriet Baroness Windsor, who assumed the
additional surname of Windsor by Royal licence on the 8th
November 1855. He subsequently became M.P. for South
Shropshire, and died on the 20th January 1854.
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Richard Clive was the eldest son of William Clive of Styehe in the
county of Salop, the younger brother of Baron Clive of Plaasey.
He died unmarried. He ontered life as a Writer in tho H.E.I.C.'s
service in 1808. Ho was assistant to the Chief Secretary to Govern-
ment in 1814, two years later, Secretary to the Mint Committee ;
and in 1820, Secretary to the Military Department. In 1824, he
became Paymaster of Carnatio Stipends, from which he jumped
to the Chief Secretary's chair in 1829. Robert Herbert, hia
younger brother, born in 1796, entered the Company's service aa
Writer in 1816. He was Collector of Sea Customs, Madras, in
1831 and was in the service till 1838. He died on the 11th
August 1867.
1599 6th Dec. Joseph Hole . . Captain Joseph Hole, aged 31 years.
1831.
He joined the army as cadet in 1818 and was Lieutenant June 13,
1819.
1600 1st May Charles Cowen Bell. Charles Cowen Bell, Captain 34th M.N.I., aged 32 years.
1833. .
He was cadet in 1817, Lieutenant September 11, 1821 and Captain
January 12, 1826.
1601 20th Mar. Henry Briggs . . Lieutenant Henry Briggs, 2nd Cavalry, aged 29 years.
1834.
He joined the Cavalry in 1820 and was Lieutenant on May 1, 1824.
See No. 2781.
1602 11th Oct. Rivers Francis Rivers Francis Grindall Fast, Lieutenant, Corps of Madras
1841. Grindall Fast. Engineers.
1603 3rd Feb. Arnold Vanhaften. Arnold Vanhaften, aged 36 years.
1843.
Mr. E. F. W. Van Haeften married Miss Charlotte Pithois on Novem-
ber 13, 1809 at Yanam.
1604 19th Aug. Charles Whitmore. Charles Whitmore, Esq., Bengal Civil Service, aged 56 years.
1844.
1605 6th Dec. Grace Georoiana Grace Georqiana, wife of J. C. Wroughton, Esq., Principal
1847. Wroughton. Collector, aged 30 years.
There is a tablet to her memory in St. Stephen's Church, Ootaca-
mund. John Chardin Wroughton was in the service from 1818-
52 and died in England, November 20th, 1854. A former wife
Ellen neo Wood died at Palamcottah, June 1st, 1829.
1606 28th June William Harington. William Harington, Civil and Sessions Judge, aged 52 years.
1849.
He married Miss Martha Jeffreys, January 1st, 1823.
1607 8th Mar. George Emujus Bird. George Emilius Bird, M.C.S., aged 25 years.
1875.
Eldest son of Charles James Bird, C.S., (1830-50), and grandson of
John Bird, C.S. (1801-45). There is a tablet to his memory in
Palamcottah Church (see No. 2658).
1608 27th Sept. Alexander MoCal- Alexander McCallum Webster, M.C.S., aged 42 years.
1879. lum Webster.
Collector of Coimbatore and one of the last of the Haileybury civi-
lians. Another Webster, Edmund Forster, c.i.m. (1857-87),
was Chief Secretary to Government under Sir M. £. Grant Duff*
Inventor of the Webster Shikar oloth of the Basel Mission.
vol. n— 13
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Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
comber,
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KARUR *
1609 2nd April Morgan Stanely and This obelisk commemorates the siege of the fort at Caroor and
1783. Others. its evacuation on the 2nd April 1783, during which operation
there was sustained a loss of one officer, Lieutenant Stanbly
102nd Regiment, killed, 19 Europeans and 30 sepoys killed
and wounded.
In 1760 Karur, then the most important frontier post of Mysore,
was captured by the English and held by a British garrison till
1768 when it was re-taken by Hyder Ali, to whom its possession
was confirmed by treaty next year. In 1783 Colonel Lang held
the fort for a few months, and it is this occupation that is here
commemorated. It was a third time captured in 1790 by General
Meadows and again restored in 1792. This*oft contested fortress
passed finally into the possession of the English after the fall of
Seringapatam and was abandoned as a military station in 1801.
It is now a busy market town and an important centre of railway
traffic. The obelisk is 2 J miles south of Karur, just beyond the
village of Tantoni whore there is a rock temple of some local con-
sequence. It is a heavy and inelegant monument 13 feet high and
is believed to mark the site of the besiegers* camp.
* This is now in the Triohinopoly District.
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Said by some to be a colony founded by Kripachari one of the generals in the Mahabarata War. 44 In the Batihagarh stone
inscription of the time of Nasir-ud-din Mahmud of the Slave Dynasty (A.D. 1246-1206) we find a mention made of the Khar-
para armies, identified with the Kharparikas of the Samudragupta pillar at Allahabad. But no attempt is made to decide
who the Kharparas were. Possibly they were Afghans from Kharappa in the Khyber and a tribe of that name in after times
played a great part in Southern India, founding Cuddapah in Madras. But here philology must ratify or refute our conjecture."
1610 1st Sept. Webb Thackeray . . W. Thackeray.
1807.
The stone bears no date and gives no information, but it undoubtedly
marks the grave of Webb Thackeray, C.S., who died at Gundloor,
28 or 30 miles from Cuddapah, aged 19, in the first year of his
service, but not before he had won notico for a clever Uttlo grammar
of Hindustani in verse. He was uncle of the novelist and son of
William Makepeace Thackeray, the elephant catcher of Sylhot.
Ho was called Webb after General Webb, tho victor of Wynondael,
whose rivalries with the Duke of Marlborough are commomorated
in Esmond. Throe of Sylhet Thackeray's twelve sons entered the
Madras Civil Sorvico. St. John Thackeray (b. 1791) was killed
at Kittoor near Dharwar in an attack on tho Desai's fort, October
23rd, 1824. The circumstances under which he was killod are
mentioned in Asiatic Journal, November 1830. His eldest
brother William Thackeray (b. 1778) joined as writer in 1796
and was Subordinate Collector in the Ceded Dlstriots from 1800 to
1803. He became the friend of Sir Thomas Munro and long
wielded influcnoe in Southern India as Chief Secretary and even-
tually Member of Council. Ho had the ablest pon of his day in
the Madras service and his writings hold an honourable place alike
in tho Fifth Report and in the selections printed by tho Company,
1817-21. Richmond Thackeray, B.C.S. (b. 1781), the novelist's
father, went on sick leave to Madras in the first year of his India
service, and it was from his brother William's house that he wrote
to his mother on February 17th, 1799: " My dear Mater, it is
intensely hot at Madras and I am obliged to go out in the sun.
There are no palankeens here, for the bearers are all gone with the
force which has taken tho field against Tippoo Sultaun. (A.A.R.
for February 1799 : ' accounts from Madras state that tho palan-
keen bearers, employed by individuals, being roquired for the pub-
lic sorvice they have been collected to the number of 6,000 and
were marched off to join the Grand Army, in order to facilitate the
conveyance of provisions and stores).' I would give anything to
be again at home. I would even be glad to carry gravel in a
basket on my shoulder in the garden. It was this time last
year we made the new walk ; it will be wonderfully altered when
I see it again.* ' As Hunter remarks, the poor lad was never to
see it again. 44 He lies for ever by a coarse brick path in a land
where no gravel is found." William Makepeace Thackeray was
born at Calcutta (where his father was Secretary to the Board of
Revenue) on the 18th July 1811 in the house in Free School Street,
which is now the Armenian College ; but five months later his
father was appointed Collector of the 24 Pergunnahs,. and it was
at Alipore he lived until, on tho 13th September 1815, Richmond
Thackeray was borne to his last resting place in the North Park
Street burying ground. Richmond's Madras brother William died
on his passage to the Cape of Good Hope, January 11th, 1823,
on board the Nancy.
William Thackeray was the eldest son of William Makepeace
Thackeray, of the Bengal Civil Service, who earned fame and
fortune as Settlement Officer and elephant-hunter in Sylhet, a
frontier district, in his day, which he helped to bring under the
orderly control of the East India Company's Government. After
only ten or twelve years' service, William Makepeace found him-
self in possession of a comfortable fortune, made out of private
trade, a recognized privilege whioh Civilians then enjoyed. He
went to Calcutta for a holiday, fell in love with a beautiful young
girl named Amelia Webb, a daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel
Richmond Webb, married her in 1776 at St. John's Church,
Calcutta, and sailed away with her to England, to live in
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retirement and happiness ever afterwards. They settled down at
Hadley, a picturesque spot to the north of London, from which,
on a fine day, you can view St. Paul's Cathedral in the distant
lowland. The young couple were blessed with a large family,
all born and bred in England. The children were all exceptionally
well endowed with brains, and the quondam elepant- hunter,
himself the son of an old Headmaster of Harrow, had the good
sense to take care that those brains were stimulated by the best
education that could bo obtained. Five of his seven sons entered
the Service of the East India Company : another son became a
Barrister and practised in Calcutta, not only at the Bar, but as a
leader — writer on the Englishman newspaper and in the days
when it emerged from the John Bull, a paper much quoted in the
/ old Madras Courier, The only son to remain in England became
a Clergyman, and he showed considerable literary ability in
writing the Life of the great Earl of Chatham, a work that was
reviewed by Macaulay. All the six sons who went to India died
in India, and only one of them married, namely, Richmond, of the
Bengal Civil Service, and father of the novelist. The eldest son,
William, was appointed a Writer on the Madras Establishment,
and arrived in Madras in 1796, when he was eighteen years of age.
In view of the remarkable success that attended William's early
career in Madras, it is not surprising that two of his younger
brothers elected to go to the same Presidency, namely, Webb in
1806 and St. John in 1809.
It was at a critical period in the history of the Civil Service that
William Thackeray arrived in Madras. The problem for some
years had beon how to make the Civil Servants more proficient
in the vernaculars. In 1791, special allowances had been made for
the payment of munshis to teach other languages than Persian,
such as Mahratti, Telugu and Canarese, and a warning was issued
by Government that promotion in the service would depend on
efficiency in languages, the object of Government being that
officials should be able to transact business with Indians direct,
without the aid of an interpreter. In Madras, both Sir Charles
Oakley and Lord Hobart recognized the necessity of insisting
on a language test as a qualification for the post of Collector,
and issued Notifications to the effoct that if Civilians failed to
qualify in the vernacular the Government would not hesitate
to employ the services of competent military Officers in Revenue
work. Had not military Officers like Head and Munro proved
their efficiency as Settlement Officers and Collectors ? It was
the establishment of the College at Fort William, Calcutta —
which young Madras Civilians attended till the establishment of
the Madras College — and the institution of large money rewards
for proficiency in vernaculars, that brought about the desired
linquistic improvements in the members of the Civil Service.
The Fifth Report recognizes the excellent work accomplished by
Lords Hobart and Clive in Madras, in this direction. The
policy they pursued is described as " wise and liberal* "
After serving a year in the Secretariat, William Thackeray was
posted to Vizagapatam, where he devoted his energies to master-
ing the Telugu language, receiving the reward of Rs. 3,500 for
high proficiency in 1800. Lord Clive immediately appointed
the young Civilian a Translator to Government A much more
important post followed soon after. At the close of the Mysore
War, Colonel Munro, on his own application, was appointed to
settle the Ceded Districts, a territory that came under British
administration in terms of the Treaty made with the Nizam,
(It would have been more correct to describe the Ceded Districts
as the " Seedy Districts for they had been fearfully devastated
and impoverished during a long period of anarchy and misrule.)
The young Telugu proficient was appointed one of Munro's
assistants. The delightful letter in which Chief Secretary Webbe
informs Munro of his appointment and introduces him to young
Thackeray is worth quoting : —
" I send this by express to apprise you that you
will probably be appointed Superintendent of the whole of the
Ceded Districts, with four Civil Assistants as Collectors of such
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portions as you may appoint them. The Assistants may be Mr.
Cochrane, Clive's Head Assistant, who is master of Persian and
Hindostanie ; Mr. Thackeray, who has received the reward for
the Gen too language ; Mr. Stodart who has been a long time
Assistant to one of our Northern Collectors ; and some other
undubashed person (i.e., not needing an interpreter), if I can find
him. These gentlemen will be put on a better footing than the
Assistants in the Baramahal, under Read, but your allowances
must be curtailed, in consequence of your pertinacious resistance
to the authority of a regular Government and in conformity to
that noblo contempt of wealth in which you effect to imitate the
old snarler in the tub. Provide accordingly, ray good man, for
your early departure to the Upper Regions, and I hope you will
not require Mercury to conduct you thither. I stipulate, how-
ever, that you leave a suffioiont number of good men and true to
enable Read to conduct the affairs of Canara after your departure.
Remember, you will be required to move at short notice, and
don't let me find you oasting ' any longing lingering looks behind '
at a bit of a back-yard with two pepper-corns and a betel-nut
tree."
What a light the witty Chief Secretary — considered by the Duke of
Wellington as one of the cleverest men he ever met- — throws on the
character of Sir Thomas Munro. Fancy describing the plains of
Northern Bellary, that " weary waste expanding to the skies
as the Upper Regions.! They are more often referred to by
dwellers on the plains as lying in the opposite direction.
Webbe's letter was accompanied by a note from Lord Clive to
** Dear Webbe," in which His Lordship refers to Munro as " that
excellent fellow and Collector " whose request must be complied
with as a matter of course. The correspondence shows that very
pleasant relations existed between Munro and the great officials
about Lord Clive. The brilliant Webbe died a few years later on
the banks of the Nerbudda, on his way to Gwalior, to which
State he had been appointed as Political Resident. The association
of Munro with Thackeray has been immortalized in Munro's
own letters. Thackeray's headquarters were at Adoni, and
Munro often stayed with him there in camp. The Chief was
evidently fascinated with the conversation of his young Assistant,
which was full of sense and vigour, as his writings are. There
was a difference of seventeen years in the ages of the two men,
yet there was something between them that seemed to bridge
over the space of years. The fact seems to be that the Chief
and his Assistant were companions in intellectual thought
outside officialdom. They had both studied classical history
and loved to fight the classical battles over again. It is on record
that in one of Munro 's letters to Thackeray he likened the head
of his Assistant, after being cropped by the Adoni barber, to
the head of Themis toclea as represented in an ancient wood,
cut. Munro's chaff shows much intellectual familiarity between
the 44 boss " and his sub. On parting with Thackeray after
three years of official and congenial companionship, Munro
lamented that the non-official causeries were over. But he
predicted success, in the future for his young friend, only warning
him to keep a cool head under all possible circumstances. In
effect he said : — " Don't attempt to scale village walls when an
enemy is waiting on the other side with weapons to slay you. M
The advice was given apropos of an incident at a village near
Adoni, which nearly cost Thackeray his life. He had attempted,
rashly, to scale a village wall to get at some murderous culprits
within the village. He happily thought better of the attempt
and retired to his tent to devise means for a more deliberate
and effective capture of the enemy.
The three years training under Munro did wonders for Thackeray.
But the greatest wonder of all was the avowed conversion of
Lord William Bentinck, Governor of Madras, to the system of
ryotwari as opposed to a Zamindari settlement for the Madras
Presidency. That eminent statesman publicly notified that it
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was the conversation and arguments of young Mr. Thackeray
then only 28, and with about 10 years* service, that persuaded him
to be a ryotwarist. The Government of India almost demanded
the creation of a host of Zamindars in Madras, the Marquis of
Wellesley having been so enamoured with the Zamindari system
that he once asked that the fact that he believed in it might be
recorded on his tombstone. The Directors in England, many
of them landholders themselves, were attracted with the idea
of creating great Indian landlords in Madras. Happily, they
listened to the arguments, based on practical experience of men
like Munro and Thackeray, who were able to show that the
conditions of life and the customs of the people, in Southern
India were very dissimilar to those in Northern India. After
Lord William Bontinck's public profession of Revenue faith, the
name and fame of Thackeray was in everybody's mouth. There
is no other instance in India, except perhaps that of Robert
Clive, whore so young a man steppod at a bound into so prominent
a position, and became so necessary to the Government of the
flay. Having definitely cast his vote for ryotwari, Lord William
Jientinck appointed Thackeray to the Board of Revenue, and
wrote a minute of apology and justificat ion for selecting so young
a man. The appointment was notified in the Madras Courier of the
24th September 1806, where William Thackeray is described
as " Junior Member and Alexander Falconer, later a Chief
Secretary, as Senior Member of the Board, two other appoint-
ments noted in the same paper being those of E.W r . Fallolield as
a member of the Board of Trade and Mr. James Strange as
Magistrate and Collector at Pondieherry. The same paper by
the way shows that largo subscriptions were being collected for
the Cornwallis cenotaph in Madras, E.W. Fallofield subscribing
150 Pagodas, T. Munro 100, T. Gahagan 100, C. Carpenter (Walter
Scott's brothor-iri-law) 100, J. A. Casamajor and many others 50
or 25, H.M'h. 33rd Regiment allotting £130, for a Mess vase in
perpetual memory of their old Colonel.
Thackeray had only been a member of the Board of Revenue for four
months when he and Hodgson, another member of the Board,
were deputed to make that historical tour the results of which
were embodied in their respective Reports, afterwards presented
to Parliament. Their appointment is dated the 14th January,
1807 f Mr. Charles Harris being nominated to act as a member
of the Board during Hodgson's and Thackeray's absence. Lord
William Bentinck had intended to accompany Thackeray on his
tour, but was prevented by public business in the Presidency
town. Thackeray's report dated 4th August 1807, is his magnum
opus, copious extracts from which, covering 24 closely printed
pages, appear in the old Parliamentary Blue Books. This docu-
ment with a previous Minute which Thackeray had submitted to
Lord William Bentinck, induced that statesman to record the
following opinion, the wisdom of which is more apparent to-day
perhaps — when we read everywhere of the breaking up of large
landed estates — than it was at the time : — '* I am satisfied that
> the creation of Zemindars is a measure incompatible with the true
interest of Government and of the community at large." The
Court of Directors, in acknowledging Thackeray's Report and the
Governor's Minute, remarked that they were " truly of a most
important nature." The Directors had also received Mr. Hodg-
son's Report, which was in opposition to Thackeray's views,
Hodgson, who was a Bengal Civilian, being in favour of the creation
of Zamindaries. They further asked for all arguments that could
be offered for or against the extension of the Zamindari system
to Madras. The Reports of Munro, Thackeray and Hodgson
would, they added, be then submitted to the House of Common*
Committee, which desired full information on revenue questions.
It may be noted that William Thackeray had not attained thirty years
of age when he had reached this unique position of eminence both
in Madras and in Leadenhall Street. Sir William Hunter finds
fault with his literary style, complaining that his official papers
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are wanting in the graces of composition of some of the other
Thackerays, including the great novelist. The criticism seems
hardly just. A young man who gives his days and nights to Settle-
ment work has not much timo for cultivating literary graces.
Thackeray's Reports have a more sterling value. They are
crammed with indisputable facts, supported by sledge hammer
arguments. The vigour of his literary style is quite Thackerayan.
He had statesmanlike ideas and a power of expressing them
forcibly, which is more important than style in official doouments.
Moreover, Thackeray, like a true gentleman, was always loyal
to his great Chief whom he was fond of referring to as " Collector
Munro."
No appointment was now too high for Thackeray to aspire to. In
the latter part of 1810 he was acting as Chief Secretary under the
regime of Sir George Hilaro Barlow, in the place of Mr. Alexander
Falconer, whose 44 elegant mansion and charming chateau " on
the south side of the Adyar was being advertised for sale by a local
poet-auctioneer who described the house as 44 almost surrounded
by the River Adyar, contiguous to the sea, which replenishes
and purifies the river twice every day — commanding a view of the
shipping sailing to or from the Roads, the flagstaff and signals of
Fort St. George, St. Thomas Mount, the Race Stand and Cenotaph,
the Bridge and adjacent buildings : the most cheerful and healthy
residence in Madras. *' There is nothing to show that the new
Chief Secretary, who received his pucca appointment on the 1st
J anuary 1811, was tempted to become the owner of this command-
ing outlook of hia predecessor, though he was the owner of a house
in Madras in later years, when he had become a Member of Council*
1611 8th Oct. Henky Logan Ensign Hknby Looan.
1809.
25th N.I. He joined the army in 1805 as Cadet and was Ensign on
June 27, 1806.
1612 12th April Mathbw Christy Mathbw Christy, Assistant Surgeon of the Zillah Court of
1818. Cuddapah, aged 39 years. Erected by his disconsolate and
affectionate widow, E. Christy.
He had a son born at Cuddapah on April 14, 1817. (Agiatio
Journal, November 1817.)
His widow married Major Mungo Campbell (see No. 2032).
1613 17th June John Power . . Captain John Power, of the 24th Regt. M.N.I. , and late Pay*
1820. master to the Field Force in the Doab, aged 35 years.
He joined the army in 1804 and was Lieut., July 11, 1806.
1614 27th July Hamilton Wilson • . Lieut. Hamilton Wilson, H. M. 46th Regt., who departed this
1820. life on the march to Bellary, aged 29 years.
1615 25th Sept. G. R. Boddam . . Lieut. G. R. Boddam, 48th Native Regiment, who died of the
1824. spasmodic cholera, aged 26 years.
Lieutenant George Rawson Boddam was a grandson of Rawson
Hart Boddam, Governor of Bombay, 1784 to 1788, by his first
wife Mary Slater, who lies buried in Bombay Cathedral, July 9th,
1762, aged 18. [By private letters by the Raymond we are infor-
med of the marriage of Rawson H. Boddam, Esq., formerly Gover-
nor of Bomaby, to a niece of Daniel Draper, Esq., formerly in
Council there, a young lady of 1 9 [Mary Selater]. (Madras Courier
quoting from Bombay Herald July 18, 1791 : Raymond arrived
July 15)]. Governor Boddam was the youngest son of Charles
Boddam, Senior, who came out to Madras as Supercargo and
married Mary Hart at Fort St. George on June 25, 1716. His
elder brother Charles Boddam, Junior, married on 29th March,
1754 Frances, daughter of Nicholas Morse, Governor of Madras,
1744 to 1746 (see No. 134). The Boddams originally came from
North-East Rosshire, and are supposed to be descendants of a
French prisoner who escaped from Edinburgh Castle. Samuel
Rawson Gardiner, the historian, was the son of Rawson Boddam
G. of the Bengal Civil Service. Lieutenant Thomas Boddam
married Mary Scott at Calcutta, September 18, 1766.
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1616 31st July George William George William Saunders, Esq., Civil Service.
1830. Saunders.
Third Judge of the Provincial Court, Centre Division. He married
Miss Angel Marshall May 1 7th, 1817. She was the eldest daughter
of Rev. O. Marshall of Carndonhgh in the county of Donegail
(Asiatic Journal, December 1817).
1617 15th June Charles Edward and Erected by the civil officers of this station as a tribute of affec-
and 7th Agnes Macdonald. tion and esteem to the joint memory of Charles Edward
July 1832. Macdonald, Esquire, of the Madras Civil Service, aged 24
years, a civilian of the fairest promise, who, while attempting,
in the fearless and conscientious dischargo of his duty, to
appease by prompt and persuasive measures, the fury of a
fanatic rabble of Moormen, assembled on the 15th of June
1832, in the town of Cuddapah, was though completely
unarmed, attacked, deserted by all his peons and barbarously
murdered. And of Agnes, his wife, who only survived him
21 days, having died on the 7th July 1832, broken hearted,
in the 20th year of her age. " They were lovely in their
lives and in death shall not be separated/'
There is a monument to his memory in the Cuddalore Church. He
was a grandson of Flora Macdonald and son of Colonel Macdonald,
an old and highly respected inhabitant of Exeter. He left
» behind two children. (Asiatic Journal, December 1832). His
wife was the daughter of E. W. Stevenson, Port officer of Port
Novo. Mr. J. D. B. Gribble gives the following account of his
death in the District Manual : '* On the 15th Juno 1832, the
Pathans of Cuddapah, the most excitable and daring of the
Cuddapah populace, descendants of the same men who had
attempted to assassinate Hyder Ali at Sidhout, were in a great
state of ferment. Early in the morning it was discovered that
a small pig had been killed and thrown bleeding into the Jumna
Muajid, It turned out afterwards that this pig was merely a
bandicoot, and had been purposely placed there by a Mahomedan,
aided by two Hindus. But the excited mob did not stop to
consider who had done the thing. They met in the market place
and in the bazaar streets; they raged and fumed, and their
numbers increased every minute. By ten o'clock the crowd
was so large and had worked itaelf into such a state of fanatical
fury, that the additional Sub. Collector, Mr. Macdonald, sent off
a message to the Collector Mr. Lac on, who resided at some distance
from the town, telling him that he would endeavour to quiet the
mob, but, if necessary, would send for the military from the
cantonment. Mr. Macdonald then got into his palankeen and
went to the cutcherry where he found native subordinates assem-
bled and in a great state of alarm. An order was at once sent for
a detachment, but Macdonald was not destined to see its arrival.
A letter was brought to him from a Missionary, Mr. Howell, who
lived in the middle of the town, and who said that he feared an
instant attaok upon his house. Macdonald, in spite of the protes-
tations of the cutcherry officials, at once determined to do his
best to help the missionary. He went into the bazaar accompanied
only by a few peons. A naick and some of the treasury guard
sepoys followed him, but it is probable that their presence served
only still more to excite the crowd. Macdonald had scarcely
reached the bazaar before he was attacked and cut down. His
revenue peons ran away, but the guard tried to defend him and
shared his fate. The last blow is said to have been dealt by a
Pathan butcher ; but after this had been dealt, the mob was taken
aback. It had assembled quickly, but it dissolved at once ; in a
few minutes there was no one to be seen in the streets, and the
only signs of the outbreak were the dead bodies of Macdonald
and the faithful sepoy guard. After a time the military came and
the tardy Collector, but all they could do was to carry back poor
Macdonald's body in his palankeen. The Collector endeavoured
105
Serial
o umber.
Date.
CUDDAPAH DISTRICT — cant.
Name. Inaoription.
(2) (3) (4)
CUDDAPAH TOWN CEMETERY ON THE SIDHOUT ROAD— cont.
to magnify this into a preconcerted rising of the Mahomedaus with
intent to massacre all the European residents, but it is clear
that it was nothing more than a sudden outburst of fanaticism to
which Macdonald generously, but injudiciously, exposed himself."
This murder is referred to in "an Indian Olio " by Campbell.
1618
14th April
1833.
Charles Matthew
Whish.
1619
17th May
1838.
Henry
BuSHBY.
Turner
1620 10th Sept. Robert Dean Odell.
1845.
1621 5th Feb. Robert James Mrr-
1850. chell Elliot.
1622 2nd Jan. John Thompson
1859.
1623 22nd Feb. St. Lbobr Murray
I860. Grenfbll.
1624 30th Mar. Charles Vere Staplb-
1877. ton Cotton.
Charles Matthew Whish, Esquire, of the Civil Service, who
departed this life on the 14th April 1833, aged 38 years.
Son of Martin Whish, and Harriet his wife who in 1792 had 14
surviving children. Brother of John Clinton Whish, C.S., who left
a legacy to build the well-known Whish's choultry at Guntoor.
Another Whish, Martin Thomas, was in the Bengal Civil Service,
1809-21, and died at Alraora, May 19th, 1821, aged 30 years,
6 months (born 1790). At Calcutta on April 3, 1799, the Rev.
Claudius Buchanan married Miss Whish and on November
1799, Major G. Prole married Miss Whish.
Henry Turner Bushby, of the Madras Civil Service, aged
44 years.
He married Lucy Ann Jeffreys, May 28th, 1818. Their son is Henry
Jeffreys Bushby, the well-known London Police Magistrate, who
was for some time in the B.C.S. H. T. Bushby was obliged by the
failure of his health to resign the C.S., went home and passed as a
barrister, spent a month before Sebastapol as a non-combatant
and contributed an article on widow burning to the Quarterly
Review (reprint, Madras 1855, reviewed in Calcutta Review, page
XXX, No. 58, June 1855, Volume XXIV). The Bushbys
furnish a pathetic instance of four brothers dying in India. Be-
sides Nos. 1149 and 1346, Lieutenant J. S. Bushby, M.N.I. , died
at Mominabad, April 4th, 1827 (see No. 1013). Edward Bushby
20th N.I., died February 1818.
Lieut.-Colonel Robert Dean Odell, 25th M.N.I., aged 42
years.
He married Miss Sophia Matilda Dobbin, June 8th, 1820.
Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant Robert James Mitchell
Elliot. Born 17th February 1820. Died at Kadapa,
5th February 1850.
6th Madras L.C. He was at Haileybury in 1843 : (Cf. memorial*
of old Haileybury, page 566).
Sacred to the memory of John Thompson, Assistant Superin-
tendent, Messrs. Arbuthnot & Co.'s Indigo Factories, who died
at Cuddapah on the 2nd January 1859, aged 42 years.
The district indigo is still known in the London market under the
name of kurpah indigo. The trade is now entirely in the hands of
native merchants.
Sacred to the memory of St. Leger Murray Grenfbll,
Esquire, H.M. Madras Civil Service, who died at Kadiri on
the 22nd day of February 1860, aged 30 years, 1 month and
15 days.
H» married, February 7th, 1853, Georgiana, daughter of Captain
Campbell, 71st Regiment.
C. V. S. Cotton, Assistant Engineer, Bengal Public Works
Department, son of Col. H. C. Cotton, Royal Madras
Engineers, who fell a victim to small-pox in attending the
famine sufferers at Rayachoti, aged 33 years.
Son of Hugh Calveley Cotton, who married Louisa, daughter of
James Brodie, M.C.8. (No. 252;, died on 13th October 1881, aged
S3 and lies buried in Shanklin cemetery near^the Eurydioe mono*
ment. Ho was nephew of General Sir Sydney John Cotton,
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CUDDAPAH DISTRICT— cont.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number,
(1) (2) (3) (4)
CUDDAPAH TOWN CEMETERY ON THE SIDHOUT ROAD — cont.
G.C.B. (1792-1874), who died while Governor of Chelsea Hospital ,
aged 82 ; of Richard Lynch Cotton D. D. (1794-1880), Provost
of Worcester College, Oxford, who died at the age of 80 ; of
Charles Robert Cotton, M.C.S. (1796-1873), who lived to be 77 ;
of Admiral Francis Vere Cotton (1799-1884), who died, aged 85 ;
and of Sir Arthur Cotton, k.o.s.i., c.B. (1803 -1899), the famous
Canal Engineer, who survived till the age of 96. The longevity
of these six brothers, aggregating to 509 years, is probably without
a parallel. The eldest brother, Rev. H. C, Cotton died, aged 71 :
and another brother General Frederick Conyers Cotton born in
1807 died in 1902. Of the family of eleven brothers three only
died young. The father of these Cottons was a man without any
particular profession who married an heiress and had a place
called Woodcot. One F. C. Cotton of the Civil Commissioners
department, Tanasserim provinces, was married on 1 6th J une 1 838
at Moulmain by the Rev. Mr. Hamilton, to Hannah eldest
daughter of Mr. H. Fox, conductor of ordnance.
RAMESWARAM.
1625 6th M ay Plahpin Richabdson. Colonel Richakdson.
1813.
Commanding 1st Batt., 18th N.I. He married at Seringapatam,
August 14th, 1806, Eliza, daughter of Lady Martha Saunders of
Dublin and niece of the late Earl of Aldborough.
MANGAPATNAM.
A memorial Tablet 4 To the memory of 10 Europeans and
Eurasians and 61 Hindus and Mahomedans who lost thoir
lives near this spot in a disastrous accident on 12th September
1902, when the mail train from Madras wao precipitated into
a breach caused by the carrying away during a violent storm
of part of Bridge No. 665. '
** Between the hours of midnight and 3 a.m. on the early morning of
September 12,1 902 a sudden deluge of rain in the nature of a
waterspout fell and flooded the country on the south side of
the railway line, sweeping away the second and third spans of
bridge No. 664 (665 ?) near the 206th mile a little beyond Manga-
patnam railway station. The mail train, which was unusaliy
full as it carried homeward bound passengers and the Europe
mail, passed through the station without stopping shortly after
3 a.m. and, on reaching the bridge, was, with the exception of the
rear brake-van, precipitated into the gap. The disaster was
unfortunately attended with lamentable loss of life ; seventy-one
dead bodies were subsequently recovered either at the scene of
the accident or at various points down stream where they had been
carried by the current. Seventy-seven persons escaped, and
eight only remained unaccounted for to complete the total of
1 56 who were in the train according to the calculation made by the
committee of enquiry. The collapse of the bridge was found to
be due to the side pressure to which the skew piers and girders
were subjected by the immense volume of water which rose above
the girders on the south side : its force being augmented by large
accumulations of straw and rubbish until one of the piers gave
way and bodily overturned. The Government held the accident
to be due to causes beyond human control and neither attribut-
able to negligence on the part of the railway administration nor
laxity on the part of the Company's establishment." (Page
124, Gazetteer of the Cuddapah District, 1915.)
1626 12th Sept.
1902.
107
G AN J AM DISTRICT.*
Serial Date, Name. Inscription. ,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
GANJAM CEMETERYf-
This little graveyard is picturesquely situated near the ruined fort of Ganjam which was built in 1768 by Mr. Edward Cotsford,
the first Resident, at one time a Captain of Engineers, who had seen service on the Manilla expedition. Cotaford was a man
of considerable energy, and his vigorous adiriinistration called forth the following remark in Hickey's " Gazette November
17th, 1780 : '* Mr. WhitehilTs private and public character is so despicable as to render him unworthy a moment's considera-
tion. The times require a Cotaford at the head of our Presidency ; they require not only an honest but a sensible man."
The most historic tomb in this cemetery has unfortunately disappeared. It is that of Alexander Macrabie, the brother-
in-law and devoted Private Secretary of Philip Francis, whom he accompanied to India in 1774. Next year he found himself
Sheriff of Calcutta, and it was part of his duty to carry out the execution of Nunoomar. He fell ill in August 1776 and
was sent to sea ; but getting worse, landed at Ganjam, where he lingered till November 29th, 1776. He had just been
appointed to a Writership in the Bengal Service. No trace of his grave is now discernible. Macrabie kept a diary of his
life in India, extracts from which found a place in the Memoirs of Francis, who preserved it among his own papers. The
visit to Madras in September 1774 is characteristically described. The party disembarked from the Ashburnhom
while the " sun flamed in the zenith " and were honoured with much military parade and firing of salutes. We were
received like the fallen angels in a little hell of our own." Mr. Wynch, the Governor, and the small social world showed them
profuse hospitality, having ready for them on the very first evening a concert, assembly and supper, where the newly -arrived
ladies, 44 by exciting different passions in the two sexes, did all the mischief they could desire." 44 Fort St. George," it was
observed, 44 does not abound with pretty women, though it may boast with some reason of Mrs. Johnson. The appearance of
the ladies even before country dances is more ardent than luminous. When the minutes are ended, they go home with their
partners to undress, and after a little refreshment return again in the purest innocence of muslin and the simplicity of a night-
gown." See Mrs. C. F. Keary's 44 Correspondence of Francis " and Dr. Busteed's 44 Echoes from old Calcutta." 44 The loss,"
says Mr. Merivale, 44 of this clever, lively, unselfish and most attached dependent evidently affected Francis keenly. There is
something very touching in Macrabie 's numerous letters to his chief during his absence, addressed to his * dearest and best
friend*, wishing him once more all happiness, and assuring him * sick or well, I am yours with the truest affection/ He
seems not only to have loved his brother-in-law as a friend, but to have worshipped him almost as an idol." Until 1815
Ganjam continued to be the headquarters of the district and a military station, but in that year it was visited by an
epidemio of fever which almost depopulated the place and led to its total abandonment in favour of Berhampore. The
decaying fort, the pillars of the Judge's house and the old parade ground are all that remain of a station which was once
famous for the magnificence of its European residences.
1627 25th June Christina and In memoriam Christina Db Morgan obfc. 25th June 1774 in
1774. Edward Db the XXth year of her age. Demeruit vitam tua virtus
28th Sept. Morgan. optima coniux. Vita brevis periit, recreet te vita perennis.
1774. Also in memory of her dear child Edward Db Morgan
obiit 28th September 1774.
Edward De Morgan was baptized at Fort St. George, August 1773 ;
his brother John, baptized December 1772, married Miss Dodson
in 1798, and became the father of the great mathematician
Augustus. Captain Augustus De Morgan, Christina's husband,
was killed before Pondioherry, October 1778, aged 39 (see No. 1270).
Christina De Morgan was the daughter of the Rev. George Conrad
Huttemann of Tranquebar. Her sister Elizabeth married Jacob
Pietersz, member of the Dutch Counoil at Negapatam ; and
another Anna Sophia, the Rev. C.W. Gericke on July 31, 1708
at Cuddalore (see Nos. 401 and 2496).
Huttemann (missionary) married Francisca de Marchis on February
16, 1776, at Devicottah.
Capt. Augustus de Morgan married Christina Huttemann on July 31,
1768, at Cuddalore. Mary Huttemann married at Madras on
June 3, 1789, Dr. William Roxburgh.
George Samuel Huttemann married a wife Ann who died 8th April
1807, aged 32 and the mother of eight children. Buried on the
new burial ground at Chowringhee.
1628 16th Sept. Johk Maxwell To the memory of John Maxwell Stone, Esquire, Chief of
1785. Stone. this settlement, obiit 16th September 1785, aet. 50 years.
(Coat of Arms.)
Stone was grandson and heir of the Hon. John Maxwell, second
eon of John, third Earl of Nithiadale. He* married Mary Beale,
July 20th, 1757. He entered the service in 1765, wai Member
of Counoil in 1774, and in 1777 was recalled by order of the Court
of Directors. His daughter Anne married Robert
afterwards chief of Qanjam. His son John Trottore Stone died
at Madras in 17S9 (No. 174).
Major Thomas Trent married Miss Mary SeeJe on September 14, 1767.
He died a Major-General, May 22, 1825.
* The district is no longer in the Madras Presidency, the major portion of it having been transferred to the New Oriasa
Province formed in 1935.
t In the transferred area of the New Orissa Province.
VOL. n — 14Jl
108
Serial
number.
(1)
Dote.
(2)
GANJAM DISTRICT— cont.
Name.
(3)
Inscription.
(4)
GANJAM CEMETERY — cont
1629
3rd Nov.
1787.
Eliza Muxro
1630
Sunday.
2nd Mar.
1788.
William Cablisle
Here lieth the body of Eliza Munbo, eldest daughter of
Mr. Robert Duncan Munro, who departed this life the 3rd
day of November 1787, aged four years and one-half.
Mr. R. D. Munro was second in Council at Ganjara. He died at
Cuddalore in 1795 (No. 1218). He married Elizabeth Esther
Williamson May 8, 1782.
[William Cablisle, Esq., after 22 years' residence in India.]
1631
1632
1633
12th July
1788.
Elizabeth ttatt.
11th Feb.
1789.
4th Aug.
1789.
Mabia Agatha
kenzie.
John Taylob
Mac-
1634
1st Feb.
1791.
Urquhart records the name, but the tomb has disappeared. He
was a merchant of Madras and a Freemason. 1779 [Inhabitant]
list, " William Carlisle : merchant, no permission ; Ireland :
from England 1767 : Black Town". Carlisle's death is mentioned
in the Gentleman's Magazine of the period. Ho had two sons
holding the Company's commission. A Lieut. Meulh married at
Calcutta November 25, 1799 Miss L. Carlisle.
Here lyeth the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Hall, who departed
this life the 12th day of July 1788, aged 33 years.
A Captain James Hall of the Artillery died at Ganjam, March 4th,
1803, Commanding Officer of the station and Deputy Commissary.
Here lieth the body of Mabia Agatha Mackenzie, born and
departed this life the 11th of February 1789.
Her father Alexander Mackenzie was in the Civil Service from 1789
to 1811. He married Sophia Lang November 14, 1799.
John Taylob, Captain, obiit 4 August 1789, aetat 39.
John Taylor married Feb, 2, 1779, his cousin Catherine Maitland
who was the grand-daughter of Captain John De Morgan. She
remarried Benjamin Roebuck (No. 2802), June 28, 1790. He
was the son of Thomas and Mary Taylor, born at Fort St. George,
May 14th, 1751. Thomas Taylor married on July 18, 1750,
Mary Morgan, daughter of Captain John De Morgan. She
remarried Robert Turing (Surgeon) June 14, 1755.
Chbistian Ludovicus Lieut. Chbistian Ludovicus Sundt, born August 7th 1768,
SUNDT.
1636
1636
1637
26th March
1791.
21st Oct.
1796.
27th May
1799.
Pagan Shaw
John Tybbell
Richabd Haycock
died February 1st 1791.
Two brothers Ludovic and James Sundt were in the 5th Camntio
Battalion in 1784. James or Joachim Anthony Sundt died
August 8th, 1795, at Vellore, aged 38. Their father was Michael
Sundt of Tranquebar, whose daughter married Colonel Muhldorff
(see No. 2419).
(Lieut. Pagan Shaw 26th March 1791) (Madras Courier).
John Tybbell, Esquire, Captain in the Hon'ble Company's
Military Service, aged 44 years and 9 months.
He married at Ambore, June 30, 1785, Mary Serrells (Semis).
She remarried Edward Hare in 1798 (No. 1639).
(Ensign Richabd Haycock, [pensioned Officer, 27th May
1799.)
He was a cadet in 1782 and Ensign Dec. 23, 1782 — Pensioned
October 1789.
1638 15th Aug. Samuel Godfkey . . (Lieut. Samuel Godfrey pensioner. 15th August 1799.)
1799.
He was a cadet in 1778 and Lieut. May 20, 1783.
109
G AN JAM DISTRICT-com*.
Serial
.number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
(3)
Inscription.
GANJAM CEMETERY — cont.
1639
8th Oct.
1800.
Edwabd Hare
1640 Oct. 1800. Adam Ormsby
1641 21st Dec. Samuel Pippett
1800.
1642 Do.
Geokge Hodson
1643 6th April
1802.
Isaac Lecebf
1644 29th Feb.
1804.
1646 11th Aug.
1804.
1646 16th Sep.
1804.
1647 6th Dec.
1804.
1648 25th Aug.
1805.
Edwabd Habe, Esquire, Senior Merchant in the Honorable
Company's service, obt. 8th of October 1800 in the 41st year
of his age.
He wag a writer in 1778, and in 1782 assistant under the Secretary
and 44 reader of the divine service " at Ganjam. He was married
to Mrs. Mary Tyrrell (widow) at Ganjam, January 28th, 1798, by
Thomas Snodgrass, Esq., Collector (see No. 1636).
(At camp in the Ganjam district Captain Adam Obmsby of the
10th Regiment Native Infantry October 1800.)
Here lieth the body of Ensign Samuel Pippett, aged LXX
years and IV months, born at Mount Holley in West New
Jersey in Burlington County, North America, having served
the King and the Company upwards of L years.
One of the few Americans buried in the Madras Presidency (see
No. 1313). He married Mary Cranwell, July 16th, 1774.
William CranweU married Louisa Peixto, June 9, 1761. William
Cranwell was an attorney in 1772 in the Mayor's Court. On
July 15, 1797, James Hadley married Elizabeth Pippett (baptized
10th May 1776) at Masulipatam (by Lt. Wm. Shawe).
George Hodson, Esq., Captain in the Hon'ble Company's
Military Service, aged 50 years and 7 months.
With him is interred Mr. Robert Hodson, aged 27 years, who died
October 18th, 1807. George Hodson married Mary Rodgers,
February 13th, 1777.
On 30th January 1797, Mrs. Fay from the Hero stayed with Captain
Hodson at Waltair, having a letter of introduction from Mrs.
Child, Mrs. Hodson's sister. Lieut. J. Hodson, 86th Regt., died at
Secunderabad on 23rd November 1815.
David Kennedy
William James
Pollock.
Joseph William
Hazabd.
Chaeles James
Collins.
Geoegb Dunbab
One Capt. Thomas Hodson died on 3rd October
Journal, July 1817).
1816. (Atiatio
Isaac Lecebf, Serjeant Major of Ganjam, aged 43 years.
His first wife Elizabeth died on 10th July 1800, aged 27 years. Ha
was married secondly to Miss Jane Moore on July 1st, 1801, by
Lieutenant Thomas Langham. On February 22nd of the same
year Benjamin Saxton married Elizabeth Lecerf, and succeeded
his relative as Serjeant Major, dying December 4th, 1811, aged
38 years.
(Lieut. David Kennedy, 29th February 1804, 19th Native
Infantry).
He joined the army as a Cadet in 1800.
(Cadet William James Pollock, 11th August 1804.)
He joined the army in 1802.
(Captain Joseph William Hazabd, 16th September 1804.)
He was a cadet in 1788, Lieut. June 7, 1702 and Capt. January 1,
1800.
He married Miss Elizabeth Hamilton, April 3, 1793.
(At Ganjam, Dec. 6, 1804 Lieut. Chable^ Jambs Colliws, 19th
Regiment Native Infantry.)
George Dunbab, Esquire, Surgeon in the Honorable Company's
Service, aged 35 years.
(Last 2 lines under the ground.)
110
Serial
number.
(i)
Date.
(2)
G AN J AM DISTRICT-son*.
Name. Inscription.
(3)
(4)
GANJAM CEMETERY — cont.
J 649 11th Juno Montgomery Co ane.
1806.
1650 11th June Joseph Walker
1806.
1651 11th Jan. Thomas Wissett
1807.
1652 3rd May Muat
1809.
1653
23rd May
1809.
John Veyrnot
1654 29th May William Berkeley. ,
1810.
1655 16th Aug. Henry Evans
1810.
1656 8th Mar. Joshua Ward Oliver.
1811.
1657 4th June Denis Montague
1811. Holford.
1658 4th Dec. Benjamin Saxton ..
1811.
(Lieut. Montgomery Coane 19th Native Infantry, 11th June-
1806.)
He joined the army as Cadet in 1806 and was Lieut. July 20, 180 U
Major Joseph Walker, 1st Battalion, 19th Regiment M.NX,
aged 42 years.
Thomas Wissett, Deputy Commercial Resident.
(The infant son of Major G. A. Muat.)
(At Ganjam Mr. John Veyrnot.)
An honest man's the noblest work of God. Reader, if ever the-
above sublime line of Pope was exemplified by mortal, it was
by him whoso remains are here deposited, the late Lieut. -
Colonel William Berkeley, who died at Chatterpore on
the 29th day of May 1810, and in the 54th year of his age,
having served the Hon'ble Company upwards of 30 years
most faithfully and zealously. Possessing every cardinal
virtue, ho was not only respected but gained the spontaneous
affection of all who had the happiness of his acquaintance
or of being under his command. Among the latter the officers
of the 2nd Battalion 4th Regiment, feel highly gratified in
recording themselves, by erecting, with the permission of his
afflicted widow, this monument to the memory of their late
most respected commandant and affectionate friend.
He married Eliza Bell, June 2nd, 1804. The officers not only erected
this monument, but wore mourning for a month, as recorded in
the papers of the period.
Major Henry Evans of the 6th Regiment, Madras Infantry.
He founded a Government stud near Ganjam in 1795. Adjoining
his tomb are monuments to Miss Eliza Crowe, his wife's cousin
who died October 4th, 1803, and to Mrs. Emelia Hannah Mackay,
his sister, the wife of Edward Mackay, Surgeon (see No. 2525),
who died at Trichinopoly, March 6th, 1792. Another slab ha*
been removed. This was probably to the memory of Mrs. Evans,
nit Ann Emily Francis Kenny, and married September 3rd, 1789,
who died of fever caught while attending on Miss Crowe. Another
Miss Emily Elizabeth Mackay married Lieutenant H. C. Harvey*
2nd Battalion, 19th M.N.I., November 3rd, 1811. Lt. Col.
J. T. Evans of the Hon. Coy's infantry died at Madras, May 17,
1799.
Lieutenant J. W. Ouver, of 1st Battalion, 25th N.I., aged
26 years.
(At Ganjam, Major Dbnis Montague Holford, of the Carnatio
European Veteran Battalion. )
He married Miss Sarah Palmer at Masulipatam, January 2, 1786.
Sacred to the Memory of Benjamin Saxton Serjeant Major
of Ganjam who departed this life the 4th of December in the-
year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and Eleven
Aged 38 years. John Saxton, son of the late Benjamiit
Saxton, died on the 10th July 1814 is also interred in thi»
vault.
Ill
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
G AN JAM DISTRICT — cont.
Name.
(3)
G AN J AM CEMETERY — cont.
Inscription.
1659
19th July
1812.
M. G. Hudson
1660 28th Mar. Charles Henry
1836, Worsley.
15th June James Renwick.
1836.
1661 20th June James Arthur
1837. Robert
Stevenson.
1662 31st May John Leeke
1846. Patterson.
1663 7th Oct. Dennis Hanson
1858.
1664 19th Jan. John Thomas
1893.
This monument was erected by Ann Hynes to the memory of
M. G. Hudson, Esq*., who departed this life on the 19th of
July 1812, aged 32 years.
Mark Gilbert Hudson entered the service as Writer in 1796, and at
the time of his death was Commercial Resident at Ganjam. On
January 9, 1813, Charles Maidman, C.S., married Mrs. Mary
Hudson. She died in Madras, 10th February 1849, aged 76.
This monument is erected by the officers of the 3rd or Palam-
cottah Light Infantry to the memories of Ensign Charles
Henry Worsley, aged 23 years, and Ensign James Renwick,
aged 22 yoars, who died during the Goomsoor campaign, the
former at Gullery and the latter at Ganjam.
James Renwick and Charles Worsley joined the army in 1832 and
became Ensign, November 24, 1832 and Mar. 11, 1833 respectively.
James Arthur Robert Stevenson, born 27th October 1800.
Collector of Ganjam in 1836, and appointed next year acting Com-
missioner in Goomsur and Sooradah. In October 1824 he was
present at the unfortunate attack on the fort of Kittoor near
Dharwar. St. John Thackeray, the Collector, Captain Black
and Lieutenant Dighton of the Artillery were killed ; Lieutenant
Richard Sewell, of the Artillery (son of No. 243), mortally wounded
and Messrs. Stevenson and Elliot (afterwards Sir Walter Elliot)
carried prisoners into the fort.
Cf. Lt. Col. Thomas Gamble Eraser's (1807-1878, 1st Bombay
Fusiliers) Sport in India, pp. 22-23.
Lieutenant John Leeke Patterson of the 50th Regiment
M.N.I. , who died at Chatterpore.
Mr. Dennis Hanson, in medical charge of the Zillah of Ganjam,
drowned while embarking for Madras from the Ganjam port,
aged 48 years [43?].
John Thomas, aged 32 years, boatswain of the S.S. Alegoma,
accidentally drowned while discharging the first cargo of
railway material.
The first tomb on entering the cemetery. This now slab is built
into one of the old masonry monuments.
CEMETERY AT BHAPUR, BERHAMPUR TOWN.*
(The cemetery is in the heart of the town, choked among houses.)
1C65
1666
1667
23rd July
1801.
26th Jan.
1802.
26th Aug.
1816.
Patrick Mapother
Edward Mark Gepp.
Lewis Crowther
Sacred to the memory of Patrick Mapother, Esq., Captain
in the Hon'ble Company's Military Service, who departed
this life at Barrampore, the 23rd day of July 1801, aged 40
years.
Of the 14th N.I.
Edward Mark Gepp, Esq., Major in the Hon'ble Company's
Military Service, died at Munsoorcottah and was interred at
Barrampore on the following day, Aged 43 years.
Of the 12th N.I.
Lieut. Lewis Crowther of the Honorable Company's Service,
son of the late P. W. Crowther, Esq., Comptroller, of London,
who departed this life the 26th day of August A.D. 1816
aged 23 years.
* In the transferred area of the New Orissa Province.
112
GANJAM DISTRICT— con/.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
Inscription.
(3) (4)
CEMETERY AT BHAPUR, BERHAMPUR TOWN — cont.
1668 3rd June
1818.
James Jobson
Beneath this stone are deposited the Remains of Captain
Jambs Jobson, of 1st Batt. 4th M.N.I., aged 34 years,
who died after a few hours' illness on the 3rd June 1818 front
excessive fatigue in the zealous discharge of his duty against
the Rebels in the Moherry hills, leaving an affectionate widow
to deplore his Loss. This monument is erected by the officers
of his Batt n . as a tribute to friendship and pledge of their
sincere Regard.
J. G. Mason, C.S., died December 18th, 1817, at Itchapore from
exposure on the game service, but no monument to hia memory
is traceable.
1669 23rd Aug.
1819.
1670 26th May
1834.
Charles Bird
Robert Cathcart
1671 10th Oct.
1836.
Baron William
kutzleben.
DB
Sacred to the Momory of Charles Bird, Esq., of the Madras
Civil Establishment, who to the distress of his affeotionate
Relations fell a sacrifice to his zeal for the Public Service, on
the 23rd August 1819 in the 29th year of his age.
Robert Cathcart, Esq., of the Madras Civil Service, aged
27 years and 8 months.
An interesting memoir of Cathcart was published in 1838 by William
Oliphant & Son, Edinburgh. Ho was, like Hedley Vicars, a man
of strong religious convictions ; and by refusing to take part in
it, caused the Government payments for the invocation of rain
in temples to be stopped.
Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant Colonel Baron [William]
de Kutzleben, H.C.S., aged 51 years, who died on the 10th
October 1836. A tribute of the affection and a monument
of the grief of his afflicted widow E. K. Just Gantz.
Lord Valentia met him during his travels in South India. He was
an officer in the 22nd Madras Infantry and married firstly a
Mrs. Woolmer, December 1810. A second wife died at Bangalore,.
November 15th, 1826, aged 22 years and 2 months. On September
25th, 1829, he married thirdly at St. Helena the widow of Major
Lambe (No. 2021). Their infant daughter Louisa Sarah Grantham
died at Trichinopoly, July 22nd, 1834, aged 20 months. Another
daughter was born 1815, June 19, at Chingleput. A son was
born on 31st December 1816 at Wallajabad (Asiatio Journal,
August 1817). His youngest daughter, Matilda Catherine Alicia,
was married to Capt. J. Curtis, 8th N.I., on Oot. 4, 1855 at
Waltair.
Dorothy, daughter of Rev. Sir Richard Wrottesley, 7th Baronet and
grandfather of John, 1st baron of Wrottesley, married 1780,
Christian, Baron of Kutzleben, Minister to the Landgrave of
Hesse-Cassel.
CEMETERY AT BEJIPUR, BERHAMPUR TOWN *
1672 10th July
1855.
1673 15th Mar.
1891.
1674 2nd Aug.
1897.
Matthew Poole
James Paull Fiddian.
John Patjll
Fiddian.
Andrew Beauchamp
Whjlqcott.
Lieut. Colonel Matthew Poole of 5th Regt. N.I. Ho
served 33 years in the 5th Regiment, which he commanded
for 9 years of that period and died at Itchapore, aged 53 years*
He married, March 6th, 1837, Anne, third daughter of Brigadier-
General T. H. S. Conway (No. 421).
Jambs Paull Fiddian, I.C.S., and John Patjll, his son.
James Paull Fiddian was educated at Birmingham Grammar
School and Christ's College, Cambridge. Open Competition of
1S73.
Andrew Beauchamp Willimott, I.C.S., educated at Lancing
College and Wadham College, Oxford, aged 25 years. This
monument was erected by his brother civilians.
Senior Assistant Collector. Third son of Rev. William Willimott,
Rector of Laverton. There is a Latin Inscription to him in.
Wadham Chapel.
* Now in the transferred area of the New Orissa Province.
113
Serial
number.
1675
1676
Date.
(2)
28th July
1799.
15th Aug.
1802.
GANJAM DISTRICT — cant.
Nan»e. Inscription.
(3) (4)
CHICACOLE. *
Miss Annaoheb Brovbe, aged 19 years.
Annaohee Brover
'Brioye Merchant from
A. I. C. DURAND
1677
11th July
Charles Hake will.
1815.
1678
18th July
James Walker
1815.
Brodie.
1 8fch AdmI
Qeorge Dun
1820.
1680
5th Sept.
George Rose
1820.
1681
5th May
Thomas Edward
1821.
Symons.
1682
6th Oct.
Henry Foster
1824.
Campbell.
1683
25th Nov.
William Townley
1828.
Furlonge.
1684
7th June
Charles Harris
1834.
Frith.
1685
9th July
Johanna Christina
1836.
Olivarious.
1686
10th April
1837.
William Gray
1687 29th Nov. William Cuppage
1837.
Cf. a name in E. I. Kalendar for 1791
Tanjore, 1785."
Mrs. A. I. C. Durand, aged 27 years.
Ensign John James Durand married Miss Anne Bromley, Ootober
10, 1781. She died at Guntur, 5th May 1846, act 70.
On September 29th, 1789, Lieutenant John James Durand Junior
married Miss Nancy Bryno. He died at Madras a Major-General,
December 24th, 1822, aged 62 (see Nos. 1812, 2432 and 2797).
Ensign Charles Hakewill, aged 26 years. Ereoted by his
brother officers of the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Regiment.
Lieutenant James Walker Brodie, aged 27 years.
He belonged to the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Regiment N.I.
(Lieutenant George Dun, of the 20th Regiment N.I., 3rd son
of James Dun, Esq.)
Captain George Rose, 9th Regt. N.I., aged 40 years.
Edward Ensign T. E. Symons, 24th N.I., aged 17 years.
■ » * v *** u-kvu. iwguaenc
or Chicacole Light Infantry, aged 24 years.
The 34th Light Infantry was raised at Chicacole in 1800 and at
first went by the name of its Commander Lieutenant Colonel
J. J. Durand.
Ensign and Adjutant Charles Harris Frith of the 21st
Regt. N.I., second son of Lieut.-Colonel Arthur Frith, died
at Poondy in the 25th year of his age.
Poondy is a small port in the Chicacole taluq and now a railway
station. *
Esq., of Copenhagen, and late in the Civil Service of his
Danish Majesty at Tranquebar, aged 62 years and 8 months.
See No. 2416. Mr. Olivarious was Danish Resident and Master
Attendant at Tranquebar. Johanne Christine Meyer married
June 28, 1782, 44 Copiisten Sr. Olivarius."
On February 4, 1815, at the Danish Church, Tranquebar, Captain
P. Jamieson married Miss Maria Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the
late Resident Olivarious. On June 28, 1815, at Tranquebar
Lieutenant E. O. Davenport, 22nd N.I., was married to Miaa
Sophia Olivarius, youngest daughter of the late H. Olivarius
[He died at Tranquebar, 30th October 1815.] Capt. Q p*
Jamieson, Master Attendant, died at Cuddalore in Septembfl
1824, aged 30 years. W
Captain William Gray, 21st M.I., aged 36 years and 9 months.
Captain William Cuppage, 21st N.I., who died at Kimedy.
1688 27th Jan. T. Haynes Browne Lieutenant T. H. B. Ludlow, of the 6th Regiment NX
1838, LUDLOW. A masonic tomb.
* Now in the Vizagapatam district.
vol. n— 15
114
GANJAM DISTRICT — cont.
t»eri*l
number.
Date.
(2)
Name.
(3)
Inscription.
CHICACOLE— cont.
1689 28th Aug.
1854.
Edward
Cox.
1690 let Jan. John Hill
1816.
Thomas Major Edwabd Thomas Cox, of 2nd Battalion, N.I., aged
47 years. Also Fanny Louisa, his infant daughter, aged
2 years.
Father of A. F. Cox, C.S., Comptroller-General at Calcutta, and
Colonel Cox, late Commissioner of Police, Madras. A decaying
bungalow in Chicacole known as the Pension Paymaster's Bunga-
low still goes by his name. He married, September 6th, 1834,
Sophia Gordon, daughter of Rev. J. Hands, Missionary.
CALINGAPATAM. *
• . Captain John Hill, late of the country sea service, aged 30
years.
He was the owner and commander of the brig " Olive Branch * f
(Asiatic Journal, August 1816).
1691 1st Feb.
1893.
F. E. K. Wedder.
BURN.
F. E. K. Wedderburn, Esq., of the Madras Civil Service,
aged 35 years.
Son of Maxwell Andrew Wodderburn-Maxwell, C.S., 1841-78 (see
No. 1434).
1692 15th Oct.
1837.
RUSSELKONDA. f
Thomas Thuiluer . . Captain Thomas Thuillier, 17th N.I.
1693 25th May John William Nixon. Lieut. J. W. Nixon, 17th N.I.
1839.
1694 21st Mar.
1841.
Albert Studdy
1695 3rd June Edmund Elliot
1841.
One John Nixon, formerly a Major in His Majesty's Service, died at
St. Thome on May 1, 1831 (Asiatic JournaJ, November 1831).
Paulina Ch. Nixon, wife of Major Nixon, died 5th January 1817
(Asiatic Journal, July 1817).
Lieut. Albert Studdy, of 27th N.I., who died suddenly of
spasmodic cholera in camp at Vishnuchakram.
Son of the late P. B. Studdy of Combe House Ippleden, Devon. His
wife Mary Chapman died at Ellore, December 13th, 1840.
Ensign Edmund Elliot, of 27th N.I.
1696 28th Deo. Edward Arohdaxl Lieut.-Colonel Edward Archdall MoCurdy, Commanding
1842. MoCurdy. 27th N.I.
See No. 426.
1697 29th Mar. Henry Parry Henry Parry Dundas Dennis, Lieut. 36th N.I. Youngest
1852. Dundas Dennis. son of Col. G. G. Dennis, C.B., who died of jungle fever
contracted in the performance of his duty, aged 23 years
and 5 months, deeply lamented by his relatives.
1698 29th Nov. William
1868. Evans.
Squire William Squire Evans, Ensign in 26th Regt. N.I., cut off
at Russelkondah after a service with the Regiment of only
2 months.
* Now in the Vizagapatam diitriot.
t Now in the transferred area of the New Oriaia Province.
115
GODAVABI DISTRICT.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
Inscription.
(3) (4)
RAJAHMUNDRY CEMETERY NEAR OLD CIVIL COURT. *
[I inspected this cemetery on 9th March 1908 in company with Rev. Mr. Smith, a Missionary who has known Rajahmundiy
since 1870. The cemetery is at the foot of the old Civil Court, which was condemned in John KelsalFs time and rebuilt for a
Railway Engineer's bungalow. The ground next to it is the Mission Bungalow, which with the Club House
belonged to Judge Copleston (tee No. 2057). Under the old Civil Court House, Smith excavated and discovered the old
Sallyport, and used it as a gravestone. The fort was evidently built by inahomedans, as pieces of Hindu temples have been
used in constructing it. The cemetery tombs are many of them sunk in the ground owing to the flooding by the river. The
site of Somayajulu's godowns belonged to mahomedans and is said to have belonged to Judge Copleston and to have hit
cattle staked. He was very fond of boating, gardening and breeding cattle. He built the harbour at the foot of the
Judge's bungalow. (N. V. Somayajulu, Sep. 3, 1913.)]
1699
3rd Mar.
1771.
James B. Brady
1700 5th April J. O'Haba . .
1785.
1701 27th Oct. John McDonald
1800.
1702 17th Nov. Archibald Bruce
1809.
1703 30th Nov. Arthur Garland
1812. Blake.
Lieutenant James B. Brady.
Captain J. O'Hara, aged 35 years.
Lieutenant John McDonald, aged 22 years.
Of the 15th N.I. He died at Polaveram (Asiatic Annual Register).
Lieutenant A. Bruce, XI M.N.I., aged 25 years.
He belonged to the 1st Battalion, Uth N.L, according to the Asiatic
Annual Register for 1809.
Arthur Garland Blake, Esq., of the East India Company's
Civil Service and Collector of this Province, aged 33 years.
Edward Parker Blake, probably his brother, was in the Civil
Service from 1797 to 1820.
1704
1705
1706
1707
18th Feb.
1813.
20th May
1822.
24th Aug.
1826.
8th Nov.
1839.
Alexander
Douglas.
John Hains
Sholto Lieut. A. S. Douglas, 2nd Batt., 21st Regiment, aged 26 years.
, . John Hains, Esq., Zilla Surgeon.
Richard Cooke
Alexander Wight.
1708 2nd Nov. Robert Hichens
1841.
1709 13th July Matilda Cotton
1846.
Captain Richard Cocke of the 29th Regiment, M.N.I., aged
38 years.
Alexander Wight, Assistant Surgeon, Madras Establishment,
aged 32 years, and Mary Anne, his wife, aged 31 years, who
were drowned in the Godavari. This tomb is ereoted by
their brothers.
Surgeon Wight was a botanist of repute, author of «* Icones Plan-
tarum Indiae Orientalis," and founder of the Madras Horti-
cultural Society in the year 1835. He was the son of Surgeon
Wight and Ann Maidman, who were married at Ingeram, Novem-
ber 14, 1803. He married at Masulipatam, 1st March 1832, Miss
Mary Ann Fitzgerald, only daughter of Captain Fitzgerald, of
H.M. 34th Regiment. Lieutenant Macleod, Adjutant, 42nd
Regiment, Native Infantry, married at Masulipatam, 19th June
1830, Emma Eliza, third daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Wight,
Commanding that Regiment.
Robert Hichens, Esq., of the Madras Civil Service, aged
25 years.
He joined as a writer in 1838.
Matilda, daughter of Major A. Cotton, Engineers, died at
Rajanagaram, aged 9 months.
Afterwards Sir Arthur Cotton, the well-known apostle of Irrigation
(see No. 1624). Rajanagaram is on the road from Rajahmundry
to Samalkot.
• Now in the East Godavari district.
▼OL. II— 15a
116
GQDAVARI DISTRICT- tout.
number. Date# Name. Inscription.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
RAJAHMUNDRY CEMETERY NEAR OLD CIVIL COURT — cont.
1710 15th Sept. Sophia Rohde Sophia Catherine, wife of John Rohde, Esq., C.S.
1846.
Mr. Rohde, C.S., 1829 — 66, was well known in the Madras Presidency
as an architect. He married at Masulipatam, September 17th,
1838, the daughter of P. J. Truter, Civil Commissioner of Wor-
cester district, Cape of Good Hope. His parents were Major
Rohde, Esq., and Sarah Cotton, sister of John Cotton, C.S. (see
No. 1157). He was first cousin of William Cotton Oewell, C.S.
(He© No. 380), Lord Justice Sir Henry Cotton and Joseph John
Cotton, M.C.S. Mr. Rohde was bom in 1812 and died at Folke-
stone, April 29th, 1899. He married secondly 10th October 1848
Patience, daughter of Richard Haughton. Haughton George
infant son of John Rohde, Esq., M.C.S., died May 31, 1850, aged
11 months (Inscription from Garrison Burial Ground, Kandy.)
1711
1712
26th June
1811.
18th June
1825.
Henry Agar
Henry Sewell
COCANADA. *
(At Cocanada near Samulcottah, Lieutenant and Adjutant
. H. Agar, 1st Battalion 16th Regiment, Native Infantry).
He joined the army in 1799 as Cadet and was made Lieutenant,
15th December 1800.
Henry Sewell, of the Madras Civil Service, and 14 years an
inhabitant of Cocanada, aged 32 years.
He married, December 6th, 1815, Harriet Eliza, daughter of Cotton
Bowerbank Dent, C.S., whose wife was a Miss Polling (see No. 632).
The Asiatic Journal, July 1816, gives January 6, 1816, as the date
of her marriage. Dent died at Vellore, August 11th, 1817.
Henry Brown, Esq., married Mi«s Anno Sewoll, November
27, 1799. Robert William Bruce married Miss Isabella Sewell,
March 15,1806.
JAGANAIKERPURAM. *
(On the opposite side of the river to Cocanada.)
1713 1776 to Family of Jacob Hier leggen begraven Magdalena Marthina, geboren te
1788. Pieter de Neys. Sadrasp. den 6 Sept. 1772 en overleden den 25 Dec. 1775;
Maria Petronella, geb. te Sadrasp. den 25 Febr. 1771 en
overl. den 15 Jan. 1776 ; Adriaan Pieter, geb. alhier den 4
Nov. 1775 en overl. den 11 February 1777 ; Johannes Corn-
elis, geb. alhier den 10 December 1776 en overl. den 21
April 1777 ; Adriana Suzanna, geb. alhier den 28 Decem-
ber 1777, en overl. den 7 April 1778, kinderen van Mr.
Jacob Pieter Deneys, ondercoopman secunde en cassier
deses comptoirs en Esther Clasina Topander.
A large obelisk approached by a terrace. Esther Clasina Topander,
daughter of Jacobus Leonardus Topander, is buried at Sadras,
May 28th, 1 767. On May 1803 at Jaganaikerpuram Dr. Benjamin
Heyne, the author of " Tracts on India and an account of
Sumatra," married Charlotte Rebecca, daughter of a Mr. L. C.
Topander of this place (see No. 1717).
At Hyderabad on April 9, 1809, Mrs. Maria Clasina Heyne, lady
of Benjamin Heyne, Esq., Surgeon, died. At Bangalore on 29th
July 1816, Mrs. Charlotte Rebecca Heyne, wife of B. Heyne,
Esq., Surgeon on this Establishment died. Heyne died at Vepery
on 6th February 1819.
Lebreeht Cornelis Topander married Ida Anna Gertruyda Rock
Duynevelt at Cuddalore on September 15, 1791.
At Jaganaikerpooram,Paezold officiated in the large house of a Mr.
Topander in Portuguese and German. 15 children there, one
illegitimate child at Samulcottah had been christened.
' Now in the East Godavari district.
117
GODAVARI DISTRICT — cotit.
Serial
number.
(i)
Date.
(2)
Name.
(3)
Inscription.
(4)
J AGANAIKERPUR AM — cov.t.
1714 Sept. 1802. William Orollat . .
1715 23rd May Ida Anna Maria
1803. Gertrude Rock
duynevelt
topander.
1716 9th Sep. A. D. Topander . .
1809.
1717 28th Jan. Lebreeht Cornelis
1816. Topander.
1718 7th Mar. Nancy Van Sohsten.
1866.
1719 11th May George
1878. Innes.
Gordon
(At Jaggernaickpooram Captain William Orollat, late in
Command of the bark Anna).
(At Jaggernaickpooram, Mrs. Ida Anna Maria Gertrude
Rock Duynevelt, wife of L. C. Topander).
(Miss A. D. Topander, daughter of L. C. Topander, Esq., in
the Dutch Civil Service.)
(At Jaggenaikpooram Lebreeht Cornelis Topander in his
67th year.)
Mrs. Nancy Van Sohsten, relict of the late H. F, Van Sohsten,
Esq., formerly Governor of the Netherlands' Government
possessions on the coast of Coromandel, aged 74 years,
7 months. True benevolence was the prevailing sentiment
and inclination of her heart and many of the destitute and
needy of the district were succoured by her generous Christian
bounty. This last tribute of affectionate remembrance made
by her disconsolate daughter and 3 sons.
See Nos. 847 and 1586.
In memoriam fratris dilectissimi George Gordon Innes qui
aetatis anno XXIVXI maii 1878, raptus est in pace, Jacobus
maerens hoc fieri fecit. — R.I.P.
NARSAPORE.*
The old factory of Madapollam stood on a portion of the present town of Narsapore. It was till 1 833 the seat of one of the
Company's commercial agencies, which was the chief of throe in tho delta, the other two being Bunder Malunka and Ingeram.
Madapollam is now a staple export from India to England ; it is a finer kind of white piece-goods, intermediate between
calico and muslin.
1720 24th Aug. Katharine Davis . . Here lieth the body of Katharine Davis, the daughter of
\$%\ t John Davis, Chief of Madapollam, who departed this life the
24th August anno 1681, aged 17 months.
The coat of arms is the same as that upon the monument at Cud-
dalore to Mr. Davis' wife Mary and daughter Catharine, who
died during his chiefship of that place, 1683-84 (No. 1192.)
1721 13th May Triphena and Ordoni- Hero lyeth the body of Mrs. Triphena Wheeler, wife of
and 17th cus Wheeler. Mr. James Wheeler, Merch*. of Madapollam, who departed
June 1682. tm8 nfe tne 13tn 1682 - Here ^ etn also tne body of
Ordonious Wheeler their son, who deceased the 17th June
1682.
James Wheeler arrivod in India on .Tune 24th, 1675, became a factor
in 1680, and was nominated as Chief of Pettipolee in 1684. In
February 1685 the Court appointed him Chief at Madapollam;
but before their letter arrived, he resigned the service. In March
1689 he was re -entertained in his formor capacity at the instance
of Sir John Littleton. Subsequently he became one of the Civil
Judges in the Admiralty Court and Member of the Fort St. George
Council. On August 28th, 1693, he met with his death in an
extraordinary manner, being poisoned by the carelessness of
Dr. Samuel Brown and his assistant, who powdered pearl in a
stone mortar in which arsenic had been beaten and gave it to
Wheeler in some potion. Mrs. Wheeler was sister to Ralph
Ord, the schoolmaster, and had been bridemaid at Elihu Yale's
wedding to Mrs. Hynmers. The name Triphena is uncommon,
A Mrs. Maria Tryphena Cockerell, wife of Charles Cockerel] and
daughter of Sir Charles William Blunt, Ban., died at Calcutta,
October 6th, 1789 '(see No. 395).
* Now in the West Godavari distriot.
118
GODAVARI DISTRICT-con^
number. Dat «- N * me Inscription.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
NARSAPORE — cont.
1722 26th Oct. Thomas Phippard To the memory of Thomas Phippard, Esq™., Surgeon in the-
1797. East India Company's Service, and many years Surgeon in
the Royal Navy, who departed this life at Muglatore on the
26th October 1797.
Mogaltoor is 5 miles from Naraapore. About 1794 it was the head-
quarters of the second division, comprising the old Kajahmundry
and Masulipatam districts.
1723 28th Mar. John Fobstbr • . Sacred to the memory of John Forster, Assistant Surgeon of
I860. Rajahmundry, who died at Narsapore on the 28th of Maroh
1860, aged 43.
NILAPALLI.*
Situated on the Godavari, 1 mile from Yanam, and formerly a place of commercial importance. It is locally known as George*
pett. Ruins of considerable bungalows are still standing. An English factory was established here in 1751 and captured
by Bussy in 1757. Ingeram is 4 miles distant ; founded in 1708 or 1712. See Love's Vestiges of Old Madras, Vol. II,
page 156.
1724 27th Oct. Jambs Fullerton .. Memoriae sacrum Jaoobi Fullerton, armigeri, qui obiit
1807. XXVII Octobris A.D. MDCCCVII, anno aetatis XXVIII.
A large pyramidal monument in a wallod enclosure. The deceased
was Commercial Resident at Madapollam. Robert Fullerton,
Commercial Resident of Ingeram about this timo, was presu-
mably his brother. Robert Fullerton was general agent of the
Salt Monopoly, Ingeram.
1725 14th May Gborob Yeats . . Sacred to the memory of George Yeats, Esq., who died the
1813. 14th May in the 50th year of his age.
" Soft on thy tomb shall fond remembrance shed
The warm but unavailing tear,
And purple flowers that grace the virtuous dead
Shall strew thy loved and honoured bier."
Purple flowers were found growing on this grave at a recent visits
Mr. Yeats was a private merchant, and brother to Mathew Yeats,
C.S., 1767 — 1808, who was Commercial Resident at Ingeram in
1791 and died at San Thome, November 13th, 1808. George
Yeats married Lydia Davidson, May 23rd, 1792. He and hia
wife are mentioned in Dr. .Benjamin Heyne's 4 * Letters from
Sumatra" (1812) as long resident at Ingeram. On September 3>
1767 at Calcutta, Captain John Fortnour married Miss Jane Yeats „
1726 18th • May Maria Mbntio Maria Mbntic Daviss, aged 19 years 5 months and 4 days,
1817. Daviss. wife of Capt. C. F. Daviss of H.M. hired storeship Reliance.
She was the daughter of Mr. C. B. Dirksz, Dutch Commercial
Resident of Jaganaikerpuram, who died there on May 19, 1820,
in the 61st year of his age. His relict, Ann Elizabeth, died
at Madras on August 2, 1845, aged 73 years, 5 months and 21
days. Charles Frederick Davies, Commander of the Brig
Lapwing of Coringa and Maria Mentio Dirksz, spinster (third
daughter of Mr. C. B. Dirksz of that plaoe) were married with
the permission of the Right Hon'ble the Governor at
Nellapilly the 31st day of July in the year of our Lord 18lfr
by William Roy Chaplain. Witnesses F. A. Savage, Chas.
Tyler. Mrs. Maria Dirksz died at Cochin September 8, 1837.
On 6th Jan. 1836 at Calingapatam by A. Crawley, Esq., Zillah
Judge of Chicaoole, J. Campbell, Esq., of 21st N.I., was married to-
Maria Henrietta Davies, sister to P.S. Dirksz master attendant
at Coohin, who died April 18, 1849, aged 58 years, 2 months and
2 days.
1727 22nd July James A. Dawson . . Mr. Jambs A. Dawson, British Consular Agent at Yanam,
1866, born 21st September 1822.
* Now in the East Godavari diatriot.
119
GODAVARI DISTRICT — cont.
Serial
Aumber.
(1)
Data.
(2)
Name.
(3)
1728 June 1802. William Clabkb
1729 Jan. 1804. A. Meris
1730
19th May
1816.
Alexander
COCK.
WOOD-
1731
1732
1733
5th Sept.
1818.
John Gowan Eaton
31st Oct.
1819.
20th May
1827.
John Eatton
Charles Eaton
Inscription.
W
CORINGA. *
(At Bimlipatam where he went for the benefit of his health
Mr. William Clarke of Coringa June 1802).
Mr. William Clark was appointed August 1800, Master Attendant
of Coringa vict Marshall.
(At Coringa January 1804 A. Meris, Esq.)
Sacred to the memory of Alexander Woodcock, Esq., who
departed this life on the 19th May 1816, aged 46 years and
Mary Ann, his infant daughter, who died in March 1810,
aged 11 months.
He was master attendant at this now insignificant place, once the
greatest ship building centre on the coast. Piles of old anchors
are still met with in the middle of the streets. Woodcock was
probably related to two Civilians of that namo, Charles, 1796 —
1820, who died in 1852; and Edward, 1806—31, who died in
1870.
Sacred to the memory of John Gowan Eaton, son of Captain
Charles Eaton, who doparted this life on the 5th September
1818, aged 15 years, 1 month and 28 days.
(At Coringa Mr. John Eatton, aged 28, October 31, 1819.)
1734 7th Aug. Charles
1857. Eaton.
. (Captain Charles Eaton, late Master Attendant of Coringa,
died 20th May 1827, aged 74.)
Georgina, eldest daughter of Captain Charles Eaton, married Captain
George Gahan of the Brig Lady Munro, August 4, 1827. Robert
Eaton, married Mary Gill, July 2, 1772. William Eaton married
Sarah Higgs in Bengal, February 1806.
William Charles William Eaton, aged 55 years. The monument was
erected by his much attached brother-in-law George Gahan.
ELLORE.f
Mary Kent who died of the small-pox, aged XXI years ahd
VI months.
John Kent married Mary Johnson June 12, 1746.
The most remarkable epitaph to a victim of the small-pox is one at
Surat to " Mary Price, wife of William Andrew Price, chief for
affaire of the British nation and Governor of the Moghul Castle
and fleet of Surat, who through the spotted veil of the small-pox,
rendered a pure and unspotted soul to God, experiencing a death
which ended her days, April 13th, A.D. 1761, aetatis suae 23.*'
1736 7th Feb. George Dawson . . Sacred to the memory of Captain George Dawson, who
17 92 # departed this life on the 7th February 1792, aged 58 years.
This tablet is placed as a tribute of filial remembrance by
his only surviving son George Dawson R.N. who visited
this spot in May 1820.
George Dawson married Miss Isabella Charlton, October 17, 1761.
1737 8th Oct. Anthony James Sacred to the memory of Anthony James Lenaine, Son of
1800. Lbnaine. Key Serjeant William Lenaine, who departed this life on
the 8th October 1800, aged 4 months.
(On ground Deaths Head and Cross bones.)
1735 17th Mar. Mary Kent . .
1789.
• Now in the East Godavari district.
t Now in the West Godavari district.
120
GODAVARI DISTRICT— cont.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
(3)
1738 19th Sept. William Lenaine
1811.
1739 13th Sept. Thomas Jenkins
1812.
1740 23rd April Henry Simons.
1813. Walter Simons.
1741
6th Jan.
1820.
George Payne
1742
21st Aug.
1825.
Dorothy Long
1743
18th May
1827.
George Ross
Inscription.
(4)
ELLORE — cont.
1744
1745
1746
10th Nov.
1832.
16th Sep.
1833.
20th May
1834.
Maurice
Hiern.
Beneath this monument are deposited the remains of Serjeant
William Lenaine, many years Key Serjeant of the fortress
of Ellore. He was born in London A.D. 1772 and died at
Ellore, 19th September 1811, aged 39 years. His disconsolate
wife whom he left with 9 children to mourn his loss has
erected in memory of her conjugal happiness the last sad
tribute of affection.
Sacred to the memory of Captain Thomas Jenkins, 16th N.I.,
who departed this life on the 13th day of September 1812.
This tomb was erected by his Brother officers of the Trichi-
nopoly Light Infantry, whose regard for him could only be
equalled by the regret they experienced at his unfortunate
and sudden death.
Sacred to the memory of Henry and Walter Simons, sons
of Captain John and Ann Simons. They departed this life
April 23rd, aged 6 years and 6 months. The latter on the
1st July 1813, aged 8 days.
Erected by the officers of the 1st Battalion, 6th Regiment, to
the memory of Lieutenant George Payne of that Regiment
who departed this life on the 6th of January 1820.
Tomb on the ground. Payne painted a view of Gingee which he-
presented to tho East India Company in 1816. It now hangs
in a corridor of tho India Office and is marked No. 50 in
Mr. Foster's descriptive catalogue. For another painter, see
F. S. Ward, No. 2506.
Sacred to the memory of Dorothy, wife of Mr. Sub-Assistant
Surgeon Wm. Long ob. 21st August 1825, aged 22 years.
Also Charles, their infant son who died August 19th, 1825,
sixteen hours after his birth.
William Marten Sculptor, Madras.
(Largo Monument.)
Sacred to the memory of Mr. George Ross, Deputy Assistant
Commissioner of Ordnance, who Died on his way from Bellary
to Vizagapatam on the 18th May 1827, aged 49 years. As a
husband, parent, friend, public servant, and member
of the Church of Christ he was most highly and deservedly
esteemed. He sleeps in Jesus. Blessed are the dead who
died in the Lord. (Obelisk.)
Henry Sacred to the memory of Ensign M. H. Hiern, 41st Regiment,
died 10th November 1832.
Elizabeth Gillespie. Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Gillespie who
departed this life on the 16th September 1833, aged 30 years.
Robert William Sacred to the memory of Major Robert William Sherriff of
Sherriff. the#2nd Regt., N.I., Assistant Commissary General. He was
carried off in the short place of 4 hours in the village of
Rajahpettah, on the march to Masulipatam, aged 42 years
and 4 months. His disconsolate widow had his remains
carried in and interred at this (station.
Uj9 married, June 4th, 1830, Mary, daughter of John Pringle, ofT
Corrubere, N.B. He was a famous shikari and went by the name,
of "Tiger" Sherriff.
121
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
GODAVARI DISTRICT— con*.
Name. Inscription.
1747 20th April
1836.
(3)
Thomas Michael
Claridge.
1748 14th Oct.
1846.
GSOBOIAKA PRIOB
1749 26th Jan.
1849.
Henry George
William Rich.
1750 29th Aug.
1849.
1751 11th Jan.
1851.
Georgiana Allan
Chatterley Yates.
1752 13th Jan. Maria
1851." Curtis.
Harriet
<•>
ELLORE — conL
Major Thomas Michael Claridge, Commanding the 43rd
Regiment, N.I., who was killed by a fall from his horse in
the 40th year of his age.
He married, May 27th, 1822, Eliza, daughter of the late Captain
John Woodhouse, 7th L.C., who died at Dharwar, September
9th, 1817.
Sacred to the memory of Georgiana Gifford, the beloved
wife of Lieut. -Colonel Prior of the 47th Regiment, and
eldest daughter of General James Allan, C.B., of Her
Majesty's Army, who died at Ellore on the 14th Ootober
1846, aged 29 years.
See No. 369. Socond Capt. O. B. Prior, artillery, died at Secun-
derabad on April 26, 1859.
Here rest the mortal remains of Henry George William
Rich, Lieut, and Adjutant of the 47th Regiment N.I., aged
28 years. His brother officers by whom he was greatly
beloved & esteemed have erected this monument to his
memory.
He married, December 19th, 1843, Mary, eldest daughter of David
Boss.
Georgiana Catherine, the beloved wife of Captain John
Shiell Allan, 47th N.I., aged 23 years.
She was the eldest daughter of Lieutenant- Colonel G. Dods, 47th
N.I., who died at Madras, February 22nd, 1848, aged 54.
Here sleeps in Jesus H. H. Chatterley Yates, son of Capt.
G. H. S. Yates of the 8th Regiment M.N.I, died January
11th, 1851, aged 2 years and 6 months.
4 * Them that sleep in Jesus will God bring with him."
1 Thes 9 . 4 : 44.
Sacred to the memory of Maria Harriet, daughter of Lieute-
nant J. Curtis, 8th Regiment N.I., died 13th January 1851,
aged two years and five months. " For of such is the
Kingdom of God."
ELLORE PARADE GROUND,*
1753 31st May Iltyd Gwynne Lieutenant-Colonel Iltyd Gwynne, Commanding 43rd Regi-
1333. ment N.I., who died at this station, aged 44 years.
He is said to have been killed by a fall from his horse. The tomb
is on the maidan opposite the Railway station enclosed by a
wall. It is on northern corner of the Old Parade Ground.
RAGHAVAPURAM*
1754 16th Jan. William Tait Lieutenant William Tait, 1st Batt., 11th N.I., aged 26 years.
1815.
Raghavapuram is 30 miles north-west of Ellore, on the boundary
beiwwi) the British and the Nizam *s territory. It was formerly a
eantooment. One Alexander Tait, Assistant Surgeon, died on
9th March 1816 (Asiatic Journal, March 1816).
• Now in lis* Was* CMtevari district.
- VOL. 11—16
122
Serial
number.
<1)
Date.
(2)
GODAVARI DISTRICT— cont.
Name. Inscription*
<•)
SAMULCOTTA.^
Barracks were built here in 1786 and it wag at the time the principal garrison of the English in the circar of Rajahmundry.
1755
17th Aug.
1790.
John Cudmob
1766 2nd Aug. Maby Olive
1795. Leighton.
1767
16th Aug.
1797.
Lbeson Beily
1758 22nd Jan. Gboeqb Ueb
1802.
1769 29th April Chbistiana Bebo
1806.
1760 20th Oct. Fbnoui&et . .
1813.
1761 22nd Mar. Edwabd O'Reilly
1816.
Captain John Cudmob obiit August 17, 1790.
The stone has sunk into the ground and the memorial tablet has
been insorted sideways and can be with difficulty read. Deceased
was perhaps son of Enaign JohnCudmore on the Bengal Estab-
lishment, who was in command at Dacca at the time of the
Black Hole disaster and was imprisoned in the French factory.
He became Captain and resigned in 1758. He had a daughter
Elizabeth, born in 1756.
Here lieth the Body of Maby Olive Leighton, daughter of
Captain Thomas and Mary Louisa Leighton, who departed
this life on the 2nd August 1795.
At Palamcottah on 4th October 1790, Captain Thomas Leighton
Commanding of 19th Battalion N.I., married Miss Mary Louisa
Everet daughter to Captain Everet in H.E. the Nabob's service.
See Nos. 2603, 2618 and 2761.
Here lies the body of Captain Leeson Reily, who departed this
life the 16th of August 1797, aged 36 years.
Sacred to the memory of Lieut. -Colonel Geobge Ube, who
departed this life Jan. 22nd, 1802, aged 60 years.
George Ure married Elizabeth Stothard, September 12, 1783, at
Ambore. She died at Vizagapatam, March 19th, 1821. George
Ure, Surgeon to the Hyderabad Residency, who married Miss
Blair in 1798 and died January 11th, 1807, at Hyderabad, was
presumably his brother. It was in charge of Mrs. Ure that
" Kitty " Kirkpatrick and her brother William George, the child-
ren of Colonel James Achilles Kirkpatrick and Khair un Nissa
Begum of Hyderabad, were sent to England in 1805, on board the
Hawkeabury Indiaman. On October 10, 1808, at Hyderabad
Alexander Kennedy, Esq., was married to Miss Ure.
Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Christiana Bebg, who departed
this life ye 29th of April 1806, aged 101 years 5 months and
16 days.
Perhaps the widow of Johann Wilhelm Berg, of Hamburg, who
was a Captain in the service of the Rajah of Tanjore, 1755 1769.
Captain Berg is referred to in Swartz's Life by Pearson, Volume
1, pages 176, 204. On April 7, 1777, Mr. Frederick Mandeville
married a Miss Anna Bergetta Berg. For another centenarian
see Mrs. Patterson, who died at Madras, 1838, aged 105, and
reposes in St. George's Cathedral Cemetery (No. 585). Another,
Mr. Lewis Olivabelar died in Black Town, January 22nd, 1824
aged 102 years and 10 months.
Bengal Directory. Death. 1804, September 27 at Calcutta
Mr. Matthew de Berg[T], aged 112 years. At Monghyr, March
15, 1850 Mrs. Maria Macarthy at the advanced age of 109
years (Englishman). 1804, 20 May M. Piene Sice [?] of Pondi.
cherry, aged 101 years.
The beloved wife of Lieutenant Fenoulhet, 20th Regiment
Native Infantry, aged 20 years.
Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant-Colonel Edwabd O'Reilly
of the 1st Battn., 4th N.I., who departed this life on the
22d day of March 1816, aged 58 years, 36 of which were
spent with distinguished reputation in the service of the
Hon'ble Company .
Fine monument. An obelisk on a pedestal with a surrounding wall.
• Now in the East Oodavari district.
GODAVARI DISTRICT-^con*.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
(3)
Inscription.
(4)
SAMULCOTTA--<5ont.
1762
1763
26 th Sept.
1818.
13th Oot.
1818.
Edward
Newman.
Thomas
Joseph Storey
1764 9th Jan. Alexander
1822. Maodonald.
1765 6th Aug. James Hume
1824.
1766 30th Dec. Richard Taylor.
1825. Kitty IJodson.
1767 24th Mar. W. G. Owen
1827.
1768 8th Aug. John Ker Hay
1828.
1769 29th June Charles Wilkinson.
1829.
1770
1771
1772
1773
1774
12th Oot.
1830.
31st Oct.
1830.
7th June
1831.
9th Oct.
1836.
22nd Jan.
1844.
John Jones
Hannah Thorogood.
Richard Ashworth.
Francis Sansom
Isabella Greek
In memory of Edward Thomas, the second son of Henry and
Maria Newman, who departed this life on the 26th day of
September 1818, aged 1 month and 19 days.
To the memory of Lieut.-Colonel Joseph Storey, 2nd
Battn., 20th Regiment, who departed this life on the
13th day of October 1818. Erected by his brother offioers
as a mark of their esteem.
Lieutenant Alexander Maodonald of the 1st Battn., 21st
N.I., who died at this station on the 9th Jan. 1822 in the 28th
year of his age. This monument is erected by his Brother
officers as a mark of their esteem and regard.
[D. Reeve Cecil]
Sacred to the memory of Captain James Hume of the 29th
Regt., N.I. This tomb is erected by his brother offioers
as a token of their Esteem. Died 6th Aug. 1824 in his
39th year.
Sacred to the memory of the late Key Sergeant Richard Taylor
who departed this life in the year of our Lord 30th December
1825, aged 32 years and lies the body of Kitty Hodson the
sister-in-law of the late Key Sergeant who died in this station
in the 20th year of her ago 1825.
Sacred to the memory of William Gowdie Owen, Assistant
Surgeon, in the M.E.R., who departed this life on the 24th
day of March 1827, aged 25 years. This tribute of affection
is placed here by his father.
Sacred to the memory of John Ker Hay, the infant son of Lieut.
T. P. Hay, 22nd Regiment, who died 8th August 1828, aged
10 months and 24 days.
Charles Wilkinson, Esq., Assistant Surgeon, 22nd Native
Infantry, Obiit29th June 1829, aetat 33 years. This monu-
ment is erected by his afflicted widow as a testimony of her
affection.
In remembranoe of John the infant son of Assistant Apothe-
cary John Jones of the Garrison, Negapatam, who departed
this life on the 12th October 1830, aged 6 days and 4 hours.
Sacred to the memory of Hannah Beloved wife of Bk. St. G.
Thorogood, who departed this life on the 31st of October
1830 in the 31st year of her age. Sincerely Regretted.
Sacred to the memory of Richard, infant son of Assistant
Apothecary Ashworth, who died on the 7th June 1831,
aged 3 months.
Sacred to the memory of Francis, the infant son of Lieut*
Francis Henry Sansom, aged 1 year 3 months and 9 days.
Sacred to the memory of Isabella, wife of Charles Green, aged
28 years.
Religious paths she early trod,
Endeared to friends, beloved to God,
Tho' called to bear a heavy load,
No murmurs felt against her God.
In hope of bliss above the skies,
Beth grateful and resigned she dies.
vol. n— 16a
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GODAVARI DISTRICT — cont.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) <*)
SAMULCOTTA — cont.
1775 I5th Aug. Marianne . . . . Sacred to the memory of Marianne the beloved mother of
1846. Hines F. Hines, Fifer, 30th Regiment Native Infantry, who
departed this life on the 15th August 1846, aged about 70
years.
1776 24th Dec. W. C. Black . . . . Here lies William Charles Black, XXXVI. Regiment, 1st
1849. Dec 1849, aged 17 yoars.
1777 13th Nov. Yates . . . . Infant daughter of Captain G. H. S. Yates, 8th Regiment, M.N.I.,
1851. died 13th November 1851, aged 3 months and 20 days.
(George Hay Smith Yates).
1778 23rd Nov. T. M. Smith . . Lieut. T. M. Smith, 8th Native Infantry who died at this
1853. station November 23rd 1853.
1779 18th Feb. Evelina Craven . . Evelina, infant daughter of Quarter Master Serjeant William
I860. Craven, who departed this life on the 18th February 1860,
aged 1 month and 18 days.
TUNI*
1780 16th Oct. James Charles Sal- To the memory of James Charles Salmon, late Captain in
1836. mon. the 48th Regiment, who died after a short illness of 3 days
during the march of the Regiment to Goomsoor. Erected
by his brother officers.
A large white monument directly opposite the travellers' bungalow .
It stands in tho open square used for Sunday markets. He died
at camp at Paikorowpett on his way from Ellore to Goomsoor.
PALCOLE. f
On the Narsapore canal, 7 miles from Narsapore and about 20 miles from Nidadavole, on the Madras and Southern
Mahratta Railway. D. Havart gives "Platte gront van de Logie Van Palikol." in his book (Vol. Ill, p. 4;.
.7. Inglifl, Executive Engineer of Salem told me on 31th August 1906, that one of the tombs was opened up at Palcole by Bowden
a medical missionary and that nothing was found inside it but some hair.
1781 20th Oct. Sara Van Swaan- Hier leggen begraven Sara Van Nooy gestorven den 20ss.
1662 and swyck. Marten October 1652 oudt zynde seventien jaeren negen maenden elf
3rd Nov. Van Swaanswyck. daeghen ende Marten Van Swaanswyck overloden den
1652. 3 November desselven jaers oudt synde een jaer twee maen-
den ses ende twintigh dagen huysvrouwe en soontje van Sr
Ysbrant Van Swaanswyck in die tyt oppercoopman en
hooft tot Palicol.
No arms.
The oldest tomb in the district. In the diary of Streynsham Master
occurs the following account of this old Dutch Settlement } **14th
April 1679. The Agent &ca. went to visit the Dutch at Pollioull
this evening, which is about 7 milos inland from Madapollam.
There the Dutch have a ffactory of a large compound where they
dye much blew cloth, having above 300 jars set in the ground for
that worke, alsoe they make many their best paintings there ;
the towne being first rented by them at 2,000 old pagodas per
annum ia now given them free by the king and they say they
make 4,000 pagodas per annum of it and sometimes more. At
Pollicull is a great Pagodae where great numbers of people come
to worship once a yeare, and performe their vowes of being hung
up by the skin of the back with iron hookes at the end of a long
pole turned round upon a pos£ of about 10 or 12 feet high before
the pagoda. This feast hapned this yeare the day after we
were at Pollicull and some of our people went to it, and saw near
20 people soe hung up by the back before the pagoda at the top
of the high pole." This temple of Ramalingeshvaraswamy ia
still in existence and stands in sight of the quiet enclosure where
the Dutch graves lie.
* Mow uithe East Qodavari district, f Now in the West Godavari District.
125
GODAVABI DISTRICT— «on*.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(«)
Name.
(3)
Inscription.
PALCOLE — cont.
In the [year 1648 the elfde (11th) merchant here was Ytbrand
Andriess van Swaanswyk, upper merchant and gewezen upper
chief of Pegu who Btayed here 3 } years and was then sent as
second to Masulipatam.
Next door to the cemetery is a soda factory and the Rammohan Club,
The temple with lofty pagoda tower (gopuram) has the usual
obscene carvings and is said to be 300 years old. The slabs are
believed to have come from Sadrangapatam.
1782
9th Not.
1661.
Gbbbaebt Hemsinck.
1783
3rd June
1665.
Symon Van Gboene-
WEGEN.
1784
25th Oct.
1668.
Anna and
Thivabt.
Hierleyt begraven d'zoon van den A. D. Sr. Lambebt Hemsinck
gent. Gerraert geboren in Palicol ady 9 October Ao 1660 en
overleden den 9 November Ao 1661.
Coat of arms. His mother Ammarentia Blochovius is buried at
Sadras, March 14th 1670. In 1657 Cathorina Hemsink, daughter
of the old Lambert HemHink, cashier in Palicol, was married to an
English upper chief, named Jersey. She died in Madraspatam.
Hier leyt begraven Symon Van Gboeneweobn van Delft in
syn leven coopman en opperhooft ten comptore Palicol obyt
ady 3en Juny Ao 1665.
Symon van Groenewegen, 17th chief of the Comtoir: Spoke the
Tellingasche, which is the tale of the Heydonen, so masterly
and so perfectly, better than his own : would read what the Bra-
minces, the inland scribes, wrote with iron pens on leaves.
Maria Hier onder leggen byeen begraven Anna ende Maria Thtvabt
tweelingen geboren tot Batavia den 14en May des iaers 1668
snaermiddags ten half twee ende overleden op den 25 en 26
October desselven jaers, d'jongste eerst.
No arms.
Francois Thivart was buried in Masulipatam in 1672. He stayed
there maar 2 months. His antecesseur was Hendrik Servaas.
1785
2nd May
1675 and
30th Oct.
1675.
Cathabina Seroyen.
Saba Sonhius.
1786
28th Dec.
1677.
David
Graaff.
Van de
Hier leyt begraven Catharina Seroyen dochter van Sr Joan
Seroyen ondercoopman en tweede persoon des comptoirs
Palicol, geprocreeert by Juffr. Sara Sonhius geboren den
30&i July 1674 en overleden den 2en Mey 1675 out 9 maenden
2 dagen mitsgaders Juffr. Saba Sonhius moeder van
bovengemelte dochter, gebore tot Groeningen den 16en July
1647 overleden den 30en October 1675 out 28 jaren 3 maenden
14 dagen.
Jan Van Nooy married Johanna Sonhius, daughter of Bartholdua
Sonhius, Fiscaal of Pulioat, who after his death married in Batavia
Hendrik Vern and in 1690 returned to Holland in the ship
Alkmaar.
Jan Seroyen Van Amboina twice married (1) Zara Zonhius who
died in Palicol, (2) Hillegonda Duryn who after his death married
Jan Wesselsz anno 1686 and found her end in the generate pest-
tijd at Masulipatam.
Jan Seroyen came to Palicol as 2nd in July 1669 and stayed here
till July 1679. He spoke nothing but Portuguese and Malay.
He died July 29, 1679 aged 40 years and was buried in the
church ; tomb of bluestone opposite grave of Heer Nyendaal.
Hier leyt begraven David Van de Gbaaot van Dorderecht,
in 8yn leven ondercoopman en factuurhouder in dienst der
Nae O. Compa ten contoire Masulipatnam, gestorven alhier
28en December Ao 1677 out 41 jaren. Mors ultima line*
mum.
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Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number. ...
(1) (2) (3) (4)
PALCOLE — cont.
Volat Irrevocabili Tempus.
Het Graaflik lijk bedekt de Palikolsche grond,
Dat yder, die dit graf passeerd, zijneoogen neersla,
En Zegge, Graff had in zijn Kennis Weynig Weerga,
Hy was opregt, en vroom, vermaard door pen, en mond,
Hier stierf hy, komende met inzigt van playzieren,
Zijn Ziel Zal't nieuwe jaar in ' shemels woning vieren.
Graaf s body is wrapt in Palcole earth. Let every passer by thia
grave cast down his eyes and say : Graaf, who in learning had
no fellow ; eloquent, pious, upright and very renowned ; here
he resigned this life at the end of its pleasures. His soul shall
celebrate New Year in Heaven's abode. 1 '
No arms.
He knew Latin and Portuguese : Havart quotes Horatius:
Charontis Unda Scilicet Omnibus
Quicunque Terrae Munerb Vescimur,
Enaviganda, Sive Reges,
Sive inopes Erimusn, Coloni.
He and Hendrik Duyker " Schielijken onvorwacht in Palicol stierf."
He only came to Palyool on 26 December 1677, died on " 28
pas een uur, of twee, door een felle koorts zijnde aangetaf."
On November 27th, 1802, the Hon. George Melville Leslie, Paymaster-
General of Ceylon and son of the fifth earl of Leven, married at
Colombo Miss J acomina Geertruyda Van de Graaf, only daughter
of William Jacob Van de Graaf, Director-General of the Dutch
Settlement? in India, who was a native of Huysen in Holland.
The lady was the issue of his second marriage with Miss Van
Angelbeek, daughter of the last Governor of Ceylon.
1787 4th April Lambert Wildelandt. Hier legt begraven Lambert Wildelandt zoone van Sr
1681. Bruynino Wildelandt opperhoofd dezes comptoirs, geboren
tot Daetcheram den 27 en Maert Ao 1681, overleden den 4
April daeraen, zoodat hy oud geweest is 8 dagen.
Dus leerd dis jonge kind het menschelyk geslagt,
Dat Van de dood, nog jeugd, nog oudheid word geagt.
" This little child teaches the human race that death respects
neither youth nor age,"
Coat of arm 8.
Bruyning Wildeland of Amsterdam, 26th Opperhoofd on 7 January
1683 ; came to India anno 1660 als Cajuytwagter : married in
1669 Helena Hemsink.
1788 30th Oct. Nioolaus Ruyser . . Caelo musa beat. Hier leid begraven Nicolaus Ruyser van
1682* Amstelredam, in zyn leven onderooopman ten dienste der
E. Compa en opperhoofd alhier obyt 30on Octob r . 1682 ;
oud zynde 35 iaren 4 maanden 21 dagen.
Vixi, et quem dederat cursum natura, Peregi. Virg.
Een vriend van zijnen vriend, een uyt't getal der vromen,
Van imborst deugdzaam, van een fijn gezuyvert hert,
Zo was hy, die alhier op nieuws tot aarde wert,
God heeft dien braven man om hoog tot zich genomen.
Dub werd die spreuk vervuld : Hoe edel, wijs of groot,
Geen mensch is veylig voor de schlgten van de dood.
Anders.
" A friend of his friends, one of the tale of the pious, inwardly vir-
tuous and pure in heart was he who here is dust and ashes*
God took this good man to himself above. Thus it is again
fulfilled that no man however noble, wise, or great, is safe from
the arrows of death/*
Nieolaas Ruyser, 24th Opperhoofd, was hurried in a garden where the
dead are buried, " in welken hof, digt aan de Heydensehen
Texnpel van achteren een hoogte is,*' where all the gravea
stand made and in the year 1684 was closed with a wall to
which there is only one entry, " om de baar met de dood-kist
door te dragen."
Nieolaas Ruyser of Amsterdam, Secretary of Pulicat, went with
Heer Pieter van Hoora as "Edelman" in 1666 in the
" ambaasade " to China ; married Susanna Duyker.
127
GODAVARI DISTRICT — eont.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription.
number.
(1) (2) (3) <4)
PALCOLE — cont
1789 26th Dec. Hbndrik Duiker . . Ook lied hier begraven Hbndrik Duikbb van Amstelredam in
1682. zyn leven adsistent ten dienste der E. Compa obyt den 26 en
December 1682, out zynde 24 jaren 3 maanden 1 dagh.
Brother of Ruyser's wife. He came to Pulicat to see his sister
Susanna, 5 years before his death.
1790 29th July Lambert Wildelandt. Noch leggen hier onder Lambert Wildelandt de 2de geboren
1686 and Gerrit Wildelandt. in Palikol, 2 October 1685, overleden tot Mazulipatnam
8th Oct. den 29 July Ao 1686 en Gerrit Wildelandt geboren tot
1687. Paliacatta 15 April 1674, overleden in Palikol den 8b October
1687 oud 13^ jaeren.
Coat of arms with the figure of a wild man wielding a club, in evident
allusion to the name Wildelandt.
1791 28th July Lucia Caulier . . Grafschrift Ter Gedagtenisse Van De Eerbaare Deugt En
1702. Zeedenryke Iuffrouw Iuffrouw Lucia Popta In Haar E.
Leeven Waarde Huysvrouw Van Myn Heer Willem Caulier
Coopman En Opperhooft Van Dit Contoir Palicol (2 coats
of arms.)
O ! God Groot is Uw Goed Dat Gy Weggelegt Hebt Voor
Die Geene Die U Vreesen : Psalm XXXI, XX.
De Man Van De Overleedene Spreekt.
Dees Zerksteen Stopt Den Mond Die Men Met Aard Bedelft
Van Lucia Myn Waarde En Lieve Wederhelft.
Haar Droeve Dood Doet My Ontelb're Traanen Sweeten.
Ik Kan Haar Liefde En Trouw Te Mywts Nooyt Vergeten.
Haar Zuyvren Imborst Mot Veel Vrundlykheyd Gepaard,
Zyn By My Tot Aant' Eynd Myns Levens Toe Bewaard,
De Ziel Dit Is Myn Wensch En Hoop Als Van Een Christen
Van Haar Met Wien Ik Nooyt In Onrust Lee vde Of Twisten
Maar In Een Liefde Die De Dood Te Booven Gaat,
Besit Den Hemel Nu In Een Volmaakten Staat
Daar Sy Haar Moeder Broer En Soon Die Hier Ook Rusten
Sig In Den God Des Heyls Verblyden En Verlusten. ,
Natus Den XII November Ao MDCLXXXI. Obiit Den
XXVIII.
Iuly Ao MDCCII. Oud XXI Iaaren, VIII Maanden XVI
Dagen.
" How great is thy goodness which thou hast laid up for them that
fear thee, Ps. 31. 20. The husband of the deceased speaks:
This gravestone stops the clay cold mouth of Lucia, my dear
better half. Her sad death gives me endless tears, for I can
never forget her love and constancy. Her pure spirit, muted
to mine with such affection, will be remembered by me till my
Hfe*s end. That soul, with whom I never lived in unrest or dis-
cord, but in love that masters death, now possesses heaven
perfected. Such is my wish and hope as a Christian. There
they rejoice and are welcomed safe in God, herself, her mother,
brother and son, that also lie here."
A handsome coat of arms with a representation of a cavalier crossing
a road. William Caulier died at Negapatam, January 20th,
1715 (see Nos. 1518 and 2460).
Chiefs of Paliool —
1 Hendrik de Wit anno 1613 ; died 1030.
2 Marinus Louyszen ; went to Masulipatam.
3 Jacob de Wit.
4 Roeland de Carpentier ; died in a year.
1 5 Jan Van Meldeerd : 5 years here.
6 Matthaeus Leendertsz ; 4 years here, then to Pegu,
7 1635. Oysbert Pelle (in 1630 went to Vizagapatam, 16)1 t»
Eloer) with one Gerrit Pieteras Barkel.
128
GODAVARI DISTRICT— cont.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) W
PALCOLE — cont.
Chiefs of Palicol — cont.
8 1636. Claas Cornelisz Blok, 3| years.
9 1640 Piotor Syme.
10 1644 Johannes de Sterke wad with Peter Syme as Gassier:
died on a journey from Masulipatam to Batavia and buried
in an island at sea.
11 Yabrand Andriesz Van Swaanswyk : 3 J years: (then 2nd
in Masulipatam).
12 1651. His brother Joannes Van Swaanswyk; returned home
in 1655, died in Oernichem.
13 Willem Robbertszen Alma. 4 yoras here. Second was
Abraham Wildakker.
14 Evert Van Cralen in 1658, died in Haarlem ; 2nd Simon Van
Groenewegen.
16 November 1658. Hercules Lindeborn : came here " by pro-
visie '* : in April 1659 Chief of Bimlipatam and 2nd of Masuli-
patam : Captain of Burgerye in Colombo. He died in
1662 *' zijnde in Zijn eygen thuyn van een slange gestekon":
stung by a snake in his own garden : married Joanna Bol-
werk. His 2nd was Symori Van Groenewegen.
16 April 1659 Elias Vanden Broek : settled in Dordrecht and
several times Burgomaster, died 1688 (brothor Matthaeus
Vanden Broek directeur at Batavia).
17 1663 Symon Van Groenewegen, 2nd Jan Van Nooy.
18 Jacob Vander Dussen, stayed 2 years; Died 1667 March at
Masulipatam. (2nd Jan Van Nooy, who on 29th March
1669, Chief of Daatserom.) ,
19 Hendrik Servaas, was 2nd in Masulipatam,
20 1669 Francois Thivart, stayed here 2 months only (2nd Pieter
Moutmaker).
21 July 1669. Pieter Moutmaker : 8 years here : had 2 seconds.
1, Jan Seroyen, 2. Nicolaas Ruyser.
22 June 1677. Johannos Huysman : only 1 month ; waa 2nd in
Masulipatam ; 2nd Nicolaas Ruyser.
23 September 1677 Jan Van Nooy (2nd in 1663 : 29 March 1669
— 10 September 1677, Chief of Daatserom :) stayed here for
5 years > retired to Puiicat asVryman of Governor Jaoob
Jorisz Pits : then to Masulipatam in the beginning of
February 1683 : returned in ship Merwe to Puiicat and
there soon aftor died. 2nd Nicolaas Ruyser.
24 Nicholas Ruyser 23 June 1682; 2nd Adriaan Blokkeel.
25 7 January 1683 Bruyning Wildeland ; 2nds Blokkeel ; and Isaac
Massis.
26 1691. Last Chief Johannes Lampe, long secretary in Batavia.
1792
1793
18th Jan.
1673.
Joannes Cauuee
2nd April
1728.
Johanna Japin
DATCHEVARAM*
Hier onder leyt begraven Joannes Caulier in syn leven
geweeat synde ondercoopman en tweede persoon ten
oontoire Daetseron in den Heere gerust den 18 January Ao
1673.
Hier onder rust Johanna Pbtronella De Pvster van Uytregt
huysvrouw van Jean Jacqus Japin ondercoopman en
opperhoofd deses comptoirs Daatcheron in den Heere gerust
den 2 April Ao 1728.
Datchaveram, otherwise Draksharama, is in Ramachendrapuram
taluk, of whieh it was formerly the head-quarters. It lies 17
miles south-west of Cocanada. Thnu two carved slabs are situated
at a spot which still goes by Urn name of Olandoo Dibba or
Hollanders mound.
Splendid monumental slabs.
♦ Now fast the East Godavarl district
129
KISTNA DISTRICT
nrater. t> ato ' Name ' Inwription.
0) (2) (3) (4)
GUNTUR.*
The following inscription was accidentally found ia the year 1789 on a stone at the head of a moorish tomb at Guntoor. Over
the inscription is a crucifix whioh leaves no doubt of his religion, notwithstanding the other appearances to the contrary .
The structure of the tomb evinces that he might have been a person of distinction.
1794 29th Nov. Chablbs Babel . . D.O.M. Charles Babel, dit Zephyr, general des armees de
1770. Basalat Zingue, mort a Gontour le 29 Novembre 1770, age*
de 39 ana. Requiescat in pace.
Cheri de la Fortune et favori de Mars,
La Victoire suivit partout ses etendards,
D' Hercule il egala les travaux et la gloire,
Mais une raort trop cruelle a trompe* notre espoir.
Basalat Jung was brother of Salabat Jung and Nizam Ali. Under
the treaty of 1 766 the Guntoor or Murtazanagar circar was given
to him for his lifetime. He was never without some French
officers in his service. The younger Lally otherwise known as
Mons. Vesser (Munro's Life and Letters, Vol. Ill, p. 74) com*
manded at Adoni and another officer named Bon Enfant was
Governor of the Fortress of Kondaveod. A few months after
Babel's death M. Mangin, chief of the French factory at Masuli-
patam, wrote a letter whioh shows the seamy side of his career
of glory. Mr. G. T. Mackenzie found the original in the possession
of a native Christian in Sattenapalle taluk and quotes it in full in
his Kistna Manual.
1795 17th Aug. Evan Marsh White. Mr. Evan Marsh White of the Honorable East India Company's
1796. Civil Service at Madras, who departed this life on the 17th
of August 1796, aged 23 years and 7 months, beloved and
regretted by all who knew him. He fell a sacrifioe to the
incautious use of castor oil nuts. This stone was placed
here by the desire of his brother Captain Charles White,
of the Bengal Establishment, as a last mark of fraternal
affection.
How loved, how honoured once avails thee not,
To whom related, or by whom begot.
A heap of dust alone remains of thee.
'Tis all thou art and all the proud shall be.
Brother of Charles Nicholas White, who married Miss Letitia Mython
Williams on February 28, 1792. Captain C. White was lost
Novr. 5, 1806 in the Skelton Castle. He joined the Bengal
army as a cadet in 1781.
The quatrain is found in Pope's works. It appears on many a
tombstone. Cf.. Hervey's Meditations among the tombs, p. 28.,
where it is quoted from the tomb of Anna Stonehouse (wife of
Dr. Stonehouse) at Northampton : Elegy to the memory of an
unfortunate Young Lady, lines 71-74.
1796 19th June George Smith . . George Smith Esquire, the Collector of Guntoor and Palnaud,
1807. who departed this life on the 19th of June 1807 in oonsequenoe
of an illness contracted in the laborious discharge of his duty
in Palnaud at the age of 31 years. The regret of his friends
upon his death is an honourable unbiassed testimony in favour
of his character.
" He expired in his palanquin on his way to Masulipatam, having
been seriously ill with fever for a period o! 15 days." (Masuli-
patam Collector's Vol. No. 3060, p. 130.)
♦ Now in the Guntur distriot.
yol. n— 17
130
KISTNA DISTRICT-*™*.
Sorlal
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
(3)
Inscription.
(4)
GUNTUR — cont.
1797 27th Oct.
1817.
George Fordyoe George Fordyce Smith, a Lieutenant in the Seoond Regiment
Smith. of Native Cavalry, who died near Guntoor on the 27th October
1817 in the 31st year of his age. This stone is erected by
his two surviving brothers in India as a tribute of their affec-
tion for him while living, and respect for his memory " now
that he is no more."
1798
7th May
1821.
Benjamin Droz
He joined the cavalry in 1803 and was made Lieutenant on 24th
October 1811
Benjamin Droz Esquire, Head Assistant to the Collector of
Guntoor in the 27th year of his age. To mark the spot
beneath which aro laid the mortal remains of departed worth,
this stone is placed by his mourning widow.
He married, November 30th, 1818, Matilda, daughter of General
Wahab. On May 1st, 1817 at Tiimevelly, A. J. Drummond, C.8. f
married Catherine, 6th daughter of the late General Wahab.
In May 1802 at Rungpore, Henry Wm.
Miss Charlotte Rouph.
Droz Esq., C. S./ married
1799
24th Oct.
1831.
Benjamin Baker
1800 1st Sept*
1832.
Captain Benjamin Baker, aged 45 years and Mary his daughter,
aged 8 months.
He joined the army as cadet in 1805, was Lieutenant on Novem-
ber 24, 1808 and Captain on January 2, 1821. He was invalided
May 28, 1822.
David Bannerman. David Bannerman, aged 35 years 5 months and 12 days.
Writer in 1815 and Judge of Chicacolo in 1 830. He married, Novem-
ber 23rd, 1822, Eliza, daughter of Major Coultman, 53rd .Regi-
ment. His brother Edward Bannerman was in the Civil Service
1816-43. Thoir father John Alexander Bannerman, Director of
the East India Company 1807-1816, married September 8th,
1799, Ann WoHt, grand-daughter of John De Morgan. He was
in the Madras Army from 1776 to 1803 and he retired with the
rank of a Lieutenant Colonel. He died as Governor of Prince of
Wales Island, at the age of 61 on 8th August 1819 (Asiatic
Journal, March and April 1820).
Isabella Sharp »• Isabella Jane, the beloved wife of Lieutenant Thomas Sharp
of the 43rd Regiment, N.I., who departod this life early on the
morning of the 30th of May 1833 aetat. 21 years, leaving a
wretched and most afflicted husband to bewail the doparture
of one whose loss on this si do the grave has taken away all
that made life desirable. In one short month was the survivor
doubly bereaved of wife and child both.
She was the daughter of Arthur Brooke, C.S. (No. 595).
Lieut, and Brevet Captain George Richardson Johnstone
of the 31st Regiment or Trichinopoly Light Infantry,
who died at the Travellers* bangalow at Rompechurlah,
aged 34 years and one month.
He joined the army as cadet in 1819, was Lieutenant August 2,
1821 and Brevet Captain April 6, 1835.
1803 1st Sept. James Woodpordb. James Woodforde, M.D., who died on the 1st September
1838. 1838. Hano. Tab. Pos. de Mort. Nil Ni Ver. August
1839.
1801
30th May
1833.
1802
23rd Nov.
1836.
George Richardson
Johnstone.
1804 ' 19th Nov, Gbobob Smith
1838.
Surgeon Gborob Smith of the Bengal Establishment, aged 38.
131
KISTNA DISTRICT— cont.
number. Date - Name * Inscription.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
GUNTUR — cont.
1805 6th Mar. Henry Gilbert Henry Gilbert Luttrell, M.D., Asst. Surgeon H.E.I.C.S.
1843. Luttrell. who died of cholera, aged 26 years and 16 days.
Gilbert Luttrell, Esq., died at Bimlipatam on August 18, 1860.
1806 3rd Sept. Jonan Yaooob Jonan Yacoob, a Nestorian Christian who died at this station.
1845.
1807 25th Dec. Benjamin Harrison. Benjamin Harrison, M.C.S., Assistant Collector in Guntoor,
1347. who was born at Baham, Kent, on the 26th February 1826, and
on Christmas day 1847 after a short illness entered into rest in
full assurance of faith. This tablet is placed by his sorrow*
ful, yet rejoicing parents, Benjamin Harrison, late M.C.S., and
Charlotte Mary, his wife, of Blackhoath.
The grandfather of B. Harrison, Senior (1792-1865), was John
Harrison (1721-94), a Director of the Company and of the Bank of
England, who married Charlotte BranfiU. Their daughter Sarah
married Joseph Cotton (1745-1825), also a Director of the Com.
pany, whose son William, " Father *' of the Bank of England,
has a window to his memory in St. Paul's Cathedral. Joseph
Cotton was the father of four generations of civilians (see Nob. 1167
and 414). During the nineteenth century the Harrison family
furnished seven civilians and the Cotton family six. Four of
these, who entered by competition, were till lately in the service.
Benjamin Harrison born at Lisbon (Rua da Magdalena) Saturday,
12th May 1792 : married 12th May 1825 Charlotte Mary elder
daughter and coheir (born 21st October 1794) of the Rev. Anthony
Egerton Hammond (the clergy of Knowlton and Ivy Church,
Kent). He died 31st January 1805 at Blackheath Bark, Kent,
Mrs. Harrison died also at Blackheath 3rd November 1871.
They had 6 children —
1 Benjamin.
2 Thomas BranfiU, Major General B.8.C. born 1827.
3 Charlotte Eliza 1829-1887, married J. F. Pownak,
4 Rev. Francis Lupton 1831.
5 John Hammond Bengal Cavalry killed at Cawnpore, 27 June
1857, born 1832.
6 Henry Anthony B.C.S., 1834.
1808 25th Aug. Jambs Hamilton Bell. Jambs Hamilton Bell, Esquire, Civil and Sessions Judge of
1850. the Zillah of Guntur, in the 39th year of his age. This tablet
is dedicated in token of her deep affection by his sorrowing
widow. She mourns his loss not only for the desolation of
widowhood, but chiefly because the qualities of heart and
head which commended him to many were known to her as
others could not know them and because her enjoyment
of them in this present world has ceased, she would cherish
the hope of a blessed reunion in the resurrection of the just.
He married, April 29th, 1839, Mary Louisa, only daughter of
Frederick Sewell.
1809 29th Aug. Mary Steele . . Mary wife of Lieut. Arthur Loftus Steele Vlth Regt.
1850. M.N.I, and daughter of William Hudleston, Esq., M.C.S.
who after giving birth to her first child departed this life at
Guntoor aged 21 years and 7 months.
William Hudleston married, May 17th, 1820, Annette Clam, daughter
of John Wallace, C.S. He was the son of John Hudleston
M.C.S., 1760-1835, sometime M.P. for Bridgewater. Steele
married secondly Martha, daughter of Capt. R. Litchfield, R.A.
Cheltenham, who died at Bellary, February 4th f 1864, aged 30*
after giving birth to her fifth surviving child. *
tol. n— 17a
132
KISTNA DISTRICT —cont.
Serial
number.
(1)
DaU.
(2)
Name.
(3)
Inscription.
(4)
GUNTUR — cont.
1810 8th Sept. Trevor Cotton Bird. Lieut.-Colonel Trevor Cotton Bird, M.S.C., aged 44 years.
1871.
Son of John Bird, C.S., 1801-45 (see No. 2658), at whose house in
Trichinopoly Heber died. Three of his brothers were in the Civil
Service : John, 1830-60 ; Charles James, 1830-57 ; and Edward
Wheler, 1842-69, the father of Col. W. J. B. Bird, Controller of
Military Accounts, Madras. William Wilberforce Bird, who acted
as Governor-General in 1844, is the eldest brother. He retired in
1844 and died June 1, 1857. Their sister Penelope was the second
wife of John Cotton, M.C.S., Chairman of the East India Company
in 1843 (see No. 1157). At Benares April 17, 1813, Robert Barlow
married Miss Catherine Bird, daughter of W. Wilberforce Bird.
Esq., at the Cape of Good Hope. William Wilberforce Bird
married Penelope Wheler.
ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY, GUNTUR.
1811
25th Aug.
1789.
Christian
1812
1813
5th May
1846.
21st Feb.
1878.
Ann Durand
1814 30th June
1878.
1815 11th Nov.
1825.
1816 18th April
1829.
1817 1834
John Sabbe
Peter Joseph Far-
rell.
Johnson Wilkinson.
John Pinohard
[....]
1818 20th Sept.
1854.
W. E. Lookhart
Stewart. Beneath this stone lies interred the body of Christian
McDonald, spouse to Donald Stewart, Quarter-master
Sergeant of the 12th Battalion of Native Infantry, born in the
Parish of Urquhart in Inverness, there married to the above
said Donald Stewart the 6th day of March 1784, by whom
she had issue four children, three of which departed this life
before her. She was a tender parent and most affectionate
friend. She departed this life the 25th day of August 1789,
aged 28 years 11 months.
Mrs. Ann Durand, relict of the late Lieut.-Colonel John
James Durand, H.C.S., who died of cholera at Guntoor
aged 70 years. This monument is erected as a tribute to
departed worth by a friend.
According to the Madras Almanac of 1847, she died aged 80 years.
In memoriam Rev. Joannis Sabbe miss, apost. in Belgia nati,
qui primus de societate Sanoti Josephi a. S.S. corde Millhill
obiit in India die 21 Februarii 1878 anno setatis suae 44. —
R.I.P.
Peter Joseph Farrell, Esq., M.B., late Zillah Surgeon, Gun-
toor, who died in June 1878. May the Lord have mercy on
his soul. Erected by his old friend Surgeon R. J. Taffe, M.B.,
Bengal Medical Service.
PONDUGAL.*
(At Paungull [Pondugal ?] on the road to Hyderabad, Major
Johnson Wilkinson of the 1st Battalion Artillery.)
Saored to the memory of Lieutenant John Pinchard of the
Horse Artillery, who died on the 18th of April 1829, aged 27
years. This tomb is erected by the officers of the Artillery
in testimony of their regard for the deceased.
To [....] who departed life on the 8th May 1834, aged 37
years.
At Pondugal (near the Travellers' Bungalow) there are two tablets,
one broken and the other gone.
(IN THE FIELDS).
Sacred to the memory of Major W. E. Lockhart of the 45th
Regiment M.N.I. , who died 20th September 1854 aged 46
years. This tomb is erected by his brother officers as a
testimony of their esteem.
* Now in the Guntur district.
133
KISTNA DISTRICT — cont.
Serial
number.
(1)
D*te.
(2)
Name.
(3)
Inscription*
(4)
1819 20th Aug. Alexander Graut
1801.
1820 23rd Nov. John English
1805.
KONDAPALLL
(Lieutenant Alexander Grant of the Cavalry died on the
road from Masulipatam to Condapalle, August 20, 1801.)
(Lieutenant Colonel John English died at Condapilly on
November 23, 1805. On 6th November Mrs. Mary English
aged 90 years.)
He was a Cadet in 1779, Lieutenant, April 17, 1786; Captain, March
7, 1797; Major, March 27, 1801; and Lieutenant-Colonel on
September 21, 1804. He was invalided December 11, 1804.
He married Mrs. A. E. Barber at Negapatam in February 1805.
On 27th April 1811, the widow of Lieut. Colonel John English
died at Pondicherry.
1821 31st Mar. Alexander Hector Memoriae sacrum Alexandri Hectoris Davidson militis
1812.
Davidson.
1822
23rd Mar.
1819.
Jane Long
1823 5th July Edward Hancock
1821. Hall.
qui obiit XXXI Martii MDCCCXII anno aetatis XXX.
The officers of tbe 4th Madras Cavalry erected a fine monument to
his memory at Socundorabad.
Mrs. Jane Long, wife of Assistant Surgeon William Long,
aged 18 years.
(Lieut. Edward Hancock Hall died at Condapilly on July 5,
1821.)
Ho joined the army as Cadet in 1819 and was made Lieutenant,
12th December^ 820.
Lieutenant Colonel John Hall, 2nd Battalion, 15th Regiment
N.I., aged 39 years.
He married, December 10th, 1810, Miss Frances Street at Yatton
Villa near Masulipatam.
1825 13th Aug. Aeneas Mackintosh (Lieut. Aeneas Mackintosh Kinlooh died at Condapilly,
1831. Kinloch. August 13, 1831.)
1824 5th May
1825.
John Hall
1826
1827
13th May
1837.
T. H. S. Conway
1828
VINUKONDA. *
27th April Frank Edward Frank Edward Robinson, M.C.S. Born at Dulwich, England,
1886. Robinson. March 30th 1860. Killed by a tiger at Remidioherla, April
27th, 1886.
Educated at Dulwich College and Balliol College, Oxford. He bad
long red beard.
He passed I.C.S. 1879, arrived inl India 19th December 1881 and
served as Forest Settlement Officer and District Forest Officer.
NAKARIKALLU. *
Saored to the memory of Brigadier T. H. S. Conway, C.B.,
who died at this place on the 13th May 1837, while. en route
to assume the command of the Hyderabad Subsidiary Force,
after a brilliant career of public service extending to forty. two
years, twenty-eight of which were devoted to the important
office of Adjutant-General of the Madras Army, aged 58.
There is also an inscription in Telugu and Hindustani.
Conway's marble effigy by Turnouth is one of the ornaments of
St. Mary's Church, Fort St. George. His name is still remem.
bered in Madras by Conway's Gardens. He married, March 1st
1807, the daughter of Colonel James Oliver. T, B. A. Conway'
their son, retired from the Civil Service in 1862.
A. L. C. Inglefield, Lieut, of the 36th Regt. N.I. aged
23 years, died while on the march of the regiment from
Madras to Secunderabad.
He died in eamp at Vipparla.
4th Feb.
1844.
Albany Lojtus Cogh-
lan Inglefield.
• Now in the Guntur district.
134
KISTNA DISTRICT^conf.
Inscription.
(4)
PEDDAPORE.*
(At Peddapore in the district of Masulipatam Lieutenant Jomr
Faoan.)
He joined the army as a Cadet in 1802 and became Lieut, on March J
1804.
NADlKUDLf
Sacred to the memory of Lieut. Richard Comyn, 42nd
Regiment N.I. who died at this place of cholera on the 8th
May 1844, aged 22 years.
Also Lieutenant James Miles Reilly, 42nd Regiment N.I.^
who died at this place of cholera on the 11th May 1844,
aged 21 years.
SOORIAPETT.
" At Sooriapett half-way between Bezwannh and Secunderabad are the
the tombs of Major William Blood of the llth Native Infantry.
and several others, all of them victims to cholera
within the last few years. The road between Bezwanah and Seoun-
derabad was always in famous for this pestilence " (Burton's Reminis-
cences of South India, page 741).
Major William Blood died at Suryapett, April 8, 1844.
Another William Blood died September 21, 1807. He was a Cadet
in the Madras Army in 1806.
MADHAVAVARAM. J
1833 10th April Mary Louisa Blood. Sacred to the memory of Mary Louisa, wife of the late Major
1844. William Blood of the llth Regiment N.I., beloved by
all who have the pleasure of her acquaintance. This inesti-
mable woman unable to bear up against the irreparable loss
of husband and children rallying from the effects of cholera
died broken hearted on the morning of the 10th April 1844.
Aged 30 years. The officers of the llth Regiment, Madras
Native Infantry to evince their regard have erected this
tomb.
TUMMERACODE.t
In the Palnaud, 38 miles north of Vinukonda. There are Beveral tomb stones hero with inscriptions roughly carved, but some
have been enclosed in backyards and others have been broken in course of years by the villagers. The place was of importance
during the latter days of Mahomedan rule.
AB34 21st Dec. James Archbold Here lies inter 4 , the body of Capt. James Archbold of the
1706. Nabob's service, who died in Timmerycottah, December the-
21st in the year of Our Lord 1706, aged 29 years.
1 766 ^c.ssS^fo.
This tomb is in a private backyard.
1835 llth Sept. Pierre Michel Tar- Icy repose le corp3 de Pierre Michel Tardivel, fils legitime-
1773, divel. de J. B. Tardivbl, officier commandant les troupes du
Nabab Mahomet Aly au Pallenard et de Magdelaine Burot,
deced6 lo llieme" t 9bre 1773, &g6 de deux ans et 19 jours.
Ad maiorem dei gloriam.
1836 llth Feb. Pierre Charles Icy repose le corps de Pierre Charles Nicolas officier ense-
1774. Nicolas. igne au service de son Exoellenoe le Nabab Mahomet Aljr
deced6 a Temerycotte le 11 Fevrier A. 1774. Requiesoat in
pace.
nSr. Date. Name.
(1) (2) (3)
1829 8th Dec. John Faoan
1805.
1830 8th May Richard Comyn
1844.
1831 llth Miy James Miles Reilly.
1844.
1832 8th April William Blood
1844.
* Now in the East Godavari district.
t Now in the Guntur district.
X Now in the Kiftna diatriot.
135
KISTNA DISTRICT — cont.
number. Date. Name. Inscription.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
TUMMERACODE — cont.
1837 1st May Joan Plaoitt . . Aqui repoz o corpo do Joan Placitt Leftenaot em sorviso de
1778. Nababo Mahomet Aly Can e foi falecido em primeiro de mayo
de 1778 huma sostafoira as 10 horas de manhan e foy sepultado
as 5 horas do tarda no mesmo dia da ydade do defunto 39
aim os d'anno de Deos 1778.
44 He died on a Friday at 10 o'Clock in the morning and was buried
at 5 in the evening of the same day." Sesta feira «=■ sexta feria,
i.e., the sixth day of the week.
[There are nine tombs besides these without inscription : all are in the bund of a knnta outside the village.]
GURUZALA*.
In the Palnaud ; 8 miles from Datchepalli. At the oloae of the eighteenth century when the Kondaveed district was annexed
by the Kings of Golconda, the Palnaud became an asylum into which defeated armies retreated.
1838 24th July Manoel D'Almeida. Aqui iaz Manoel D'Almeida filho de Manool d'Almeida e de
1767. Catarina Doroz e afilhado do capitao Manoel Mabtinz
faleceo 10 mezes 8 dias de idade Julho 24 1767.
Manoel Martinz is probably the famous Colonel Manoel Martinz of
Ramnad, who died there, October 7th, 1810, aged 70 (No. 2026).
These two children were his godsons (afilhade). The name PoroB
is either De Rozario or Doroz, the plural of dor, i.e., Dolores.
1839 16th Nov. Antonio Quermekil. Aqui iaz Antonio Quermekil filho legitimode Placitt Quermekil
1769. e de Antonia da Costa e afilhado de Manoel Martinz capitao
em servisso do Nabob naceo aos 5 de Septembro e faleceo aos
16 de Novembro do anno do nascimento de N.S.J. Christo
1769.
A Telugu inscription follows. The name Quermekil suggests
the possibility of a Scotch adventurer Carmichael, who settled
in Portugal. In the same way the Empress Eugenie Mile de
Montijo was descended from a Kirkpa trick.
PIDUGURALLA*.
(Near Piduragalla — Zoolacollu road.)
1840
20th Oct.
1819.
Mary Campbell
Meikle.
Sacred to the memory of Mary Campbell, wife of Geo. Meikle,
Esq., of the Madras Medical Est., who departed this life on the
20th October 1819.
George Meikle married Mary Campbell, April 22, 1815. He wai
Surgeon to His Highness the Nizam's Russel Brigade.
1841 7th Feb. Algernon J. Reve- To the memory of ensign Algernon J. Reveley, Hon ble - E.I.C.
1844. ley. service, who died at Peddagooral, 7th February 1844, aged 17.
ST. MARY'S CEMETERY, MASULIPATAM.
This church dedicated to Saint John the Evangelist (with the Burial Ground near the Pettah entrance to this Fortress) wai
consecrated by the Right Reverend George Trevor Spencer D. D. by Divine Permission Lord Bishop of Madras on the 11th
January Anno Domini 1842. Trustees Rev. E. P. Lewis M. A. Chaplain, P. Grant Esq., Collector, Major J. Damdry
Commanding Garrison. This inscription stone taken from St. John's Church in Masulipatam Fort which was damaged by
the Cyclone 1864 was renewed and refixed here in the year 1907.
1842
6th Nov.
1809.
Arabella Robinson.
1843
1844
18th Aug.
1810.
5th Nov.
1818.
Thomas
Palmer.
Alexander
Coull.
James
Dunbar
Arabella Robinson, daughter of Capt. W. Robinson of
the Honorable Company's Military Service, aged 40 years.
This monument is erected by her ever grateful and affectio-
nate friend Major-General John Pater.
General Pater (No. 343) had her buried in a field and built a church
over her, which in 181 6 he presented to the Honourable Company,
who in a letter acknowledged the " munificent gift.'*
Lieutenant George Bowness married Miss Harriet Robinson on Aug.
14, 1789 at Masulipatam.
Capt. T. J. Palmer, 25th N.I. Erected by the officers of the
Regiment.
Tablet inside the Church brought from St. John's Church in the Fort.
He joined the army as Cadet in 1800, was Lieutenant on July 20,
1801 and Captain, Sep. 29, 1808.
Lieut. Alexander Dunbar Coull, of the Madras Artillery,
In the 27th year of his age, son of James Coull, Esq., of Ash-
grove in the county of Moray.
He joined the artillery in 1810, was Lieut., Sept. 21, 1818. He
died in the house of James O. Todd Judge and Chief Magistrate.
136
KISTNA DISTRICT — cant.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
1845 19th Aug.
1819.
1846 20th Aug.
1823.
1847 9th Juno
1825.
1848 17th Jan.
1826.
1849 19th Nov.
1828.
Name. Inscription.
(3) W
ST. MARY'S CEMETERY, MASULIPATAM — cont,
Henry J. W. New- Henry J. W. Newman, born 11th February 1817 and died 10
man. August 1819.
John Duncan John Duncan, son of Capt. J. Ogilvie 17th N.I., born 20th
Ooilvib. April 1822, died 20th August 1823.
Francis Best . . Capt. Francis Best, Madras Artillery, Commissiry of Stores
at this station.
He joined the Artillery in 1803, was Lieutenant on 4th Sept. 1804
and Captain Jan. 1, 1819.
William James . . Capt. William James, Paymaster at Masulipatam, aged 41.
He joined the army as Cadet in 1799, was Lieutenant on Dec. 16V
1800 and Captaiu July 27, 1813. His wife Jane died Thursday
19th Aug. 1824, aged 27.
Edward, son of Major and Emma Cooke, born August 11,
1828, died 19 Nov. 1828.
Septimus Money, Esquire, Judge of the Provincial Court,
Northern Division, aged 45 years. This monument is erected
as a token of esteem by the gentlemen of this station.
Lieut. Alfred Brooks, 14th M.N.I., aged 27 years.
Edward Cooke
1833.
1853 25th May Henry Munn
1833.
1850 14th Aug. Septimus Money
1830.
1851 24th May Alfred Brooks
1833.
1852 24th May Alexander Tulloh. Major Alexander Tulloh, 14th Regiment M.N.I., aged 38
years.
Lieut.-Colonel H. Munn, 14th Regiment M.NJ., aged 50
years.
He joined the army as Cadet in 1800,
Colonel Walter Campbell when a Lieutenant in H.M.'s 62nd Regiment,,
writes of Masulipatam in August of this year : 44 So great has
been the mortality that the Surgeon has requested the Colonel to
let the dead be buried quietly without music or firing, as the
almost daily repetition of the dead march has a very depressing
effect on the patients in hospital.'* He speaks of the Fort " as
originally built by the Dutch on a patch of dry ground surrounded
by a swamp, which no living creature, but a Dutchman, a frog
or an alligator would ever have chosen for his habitation." Welsh,
who was Fort Adjutant and Postmaster there in 1799, says :
'* The soldier's description of it is extremely apposite that there-
is only a sheet of brown paper between it and Pandemonium.' *
James George Smith Neill (1810-1897) was appointed Fort Adjutant
of Bander on 18 Sept. 1829 and held the post tiU his regiment (1st
Madras European Regiment) marched to Kampti.
Second Lieut. W. M. Molynbux of the Artillery, aged 2&
years.
With the A Company 3rd Battn., Madras Artillery v He joined the-
Artillery in 1827 and was second Lieutenant, June 12, 1828.
1854
18th Sept.
1833.
William More Moly-
nbux.
1855 13th Oct.
1833.
Harriet
Waters.
1856
1st March
1836.
William Rose
Eliza Harriet Eliza, wife of Q. J. Waters, Esq., aged nearly 21.
George Jenkins Waters, C.S., was married six times. Two of his^
wives are buried at Chittoor. The lady buried here was the*
daughter of the late James Cooke, Surgeon, and married July
17th, 1833 (see No. 1151). Cooke died at Mallegaura, May 17th,
1821.
. . Captaiu William Rose, 43rd Regiment, Native Infantry, aged
36 years.
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KISTNA DISTRICT— wnt.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
Inscription.
ST.
(3) (4)
MARY'S CEMETERY, MASULIPATAM--"C07i*.
1857
7th Sept.
1837.
Harriet Crozibr
1858
1859
1860
1861
25th May
1842.
8th Jan.
1847.
16th May
1860.
1st Nov.
1864.
Patrick Grant
Anne Lake
Gertrude Knox
Mary Jamieson,
Mary Jessie and
James Kellie.
1862
lBt Nov.
1864.
William and Char-
lotte Scott.
1863
7th Oct.
1865.
Robert Turlington
Noble.
1864
28th May
1867
John Edmund
key.
Shar-
Harriet Bensly Gresham, wife of Francis Cbozier, Esq.,
M.C.S., and daughter of J. B. G. P. Paske, Esq., aged 18
years 8 months and 8 days.
Crozier married Miss Paske Deo. 31, 1836, born on 6 May 1817 at
Waltair.
The pulpit in St. Francis* Church, Cochin, is erected to the memory
of his second wife Diana who died March 21st, 1880. Mr. Paske
died in England. August 3rd, 1859. John Bensley Gresham Pag*
Paske was writer in 1806 and retired 1840.
Patrick Grant, Esq., Collector and Magistrate of the district,
aged 43 years.
Presumably a relation of Field Marshal Sir Patrick Grant, Commander-
in-Chief at Madras, 1856-61. He married Miss Elliott, August
25th, 1838, at St. John's Church, Masulipatam.
Anne wife of Captain Atwbll Lake of the Engineers and
youngest daughter of the Rev. Peregrine Curtois, of the
Long Hills in the county of Lincoln.
Henry Atwell Lake, C. B., Capt. and Bt. Lt.-Col., Engineers,
retired 12th March 1856.
Sacred to the memory of Gertrude the beloved wife of
W. Knox, Esq., C.S., who died aged 28 years 16th May 1860,
the year in which she* hoped to return home : far better none.
Mrs. Mary Jamieson, aged 62 years 10 months 8 days,
widow of the late Mr. Samuel Jamieson, and her grand-
children, Mary, aged 7 years, Jessie, aged 5 years, James,
aged 4 years, children of Mr. J. E. Kellie, Inspecting Post-
master, Hyderabad Division, who all perished in the inunda-
tion on the night of November 1st, 1864.
Mr. Sam. Jamieson married Mary Christian Nov. 1, 1806. He died
at Masulipatam on March 14, 1840, aged 47 years.
William Scott, D.P.W., son of the late Captain Scott of the
Nizam's Army, born September 4th, 1830 ; and his wife
Charlotte Louisa, daughter of Mr. A. F. Ottmann,
Sub-Engineer, P.W.D., born October 23rd 1839, both of
whom perished in the Cyclone at Masulipatam on November
1st, 1864.
Tall and ascetic, the Tradition is that he always wore a Tall Hat.
Rev. Robert Turlington Noble, B.A., C.M.S., born Feb-
ruary 9th, 1810, laboured at Masulipatam from October 28th,
1841 till his death.
In his life it is stated 9th March 1809 was the date of his baptism.
Educated at Oakham Grammar School under Rev. John Donoaster,
fellow of Christ's 1822-1827, Sidney Sussex College 1827-1831.
(Browne's medalist, Senr. Christ medalist and l«t. Wrangler.)
Rev. John Edmund Sharkey, C.M.S., born July 1st, 1821
laboured at Masulipatam from Ootober 28th, 1843, till his
death.
A Eurasian.
The following extract from a minute of Sir Charles Trevelyan, dated
October 1859, testifies to the value of Noble's and Sharkey's
labours : " Mr. Noble, who has devoted for 16 years moral and
intellectual attainments of a high order to the instruction of the
rising generation ; Mr. and Mrs. Sharkey and Seshayya Sastri,
the teachers in these schools, will be known hereafter as those
who have planted the germs of an improved learning in this inter-
esting and important part of the Madras Presidency. Masnli*
patam bids fair to become to the Northern Oirears more than
Oxford or Cambridge have been to the United Kingdom/' Noble's
▼OL. n— 18
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KISTNA DISTRICT— cant.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) W
ST. MARY'S CEMETERY, MASULIPATAM — cont.
life was written in 1867 by his brother Rev. John Noble, Rector of
Nether Broughton and published by Seeley Jackson and Halliday,
64, Fleet Street with 6 illustrations —
(1) Frisby Church and Parsonage.
(2) Exterior of School, Masulipatam.
(3) Interior of School.
(4) Gopalaswami Pagoda, Ellore.
(5) Bezwada and the Kistna anicut.
(6) The mission House and School, Ellore (with elephant) (in the
Fort Ellore).
It is a curious coincidence that the founder of the Masulipatam
Mission should bear the same name as Robert deNobili, the father
of the Madura Mission. The Noble Memorial College occupies
the site of the former Collector's office, overwhelmed by the
storm-wave of 1864.
1865 31st May Charles John Charles John C^osthwaite, M.C.S., who died at Masuli-
1881. Crosthwatte. patam from the effects of fever, aged 41 years.
1866 3rd Nov. Edward Hudson Edward Hudson Boileau, Forest Department, eldest son
1886. Boileau. of the late Col. A. J. M. Boileau, Royal (Madras) Engineers
and grandson of the late T. E. J. Boileau, Circuit Judge of
the Northern Circars, born May 9th, 1850.
He designed his own tomb.
His grandfather, Thomas Ebenezer John Boileau, died February
8th, 1853. He married, firstly December 26th 1817, Mary Anne,
only daughter of A. Miller, Surgeon, and secondly July 4th, 1832,
Ellen, nie Neale, widow of Col. E. Conry (No. 414). Colonel
A.J.M. Boileau died at Cuddalore, August 8th, 1871. He married,
January 31st, 1849, Lucy, daughter of E. Smalley, C.S. (see
No. 2530).
Mr. Lestook Wilson, Chief mate of the York Indiaman married
Miss Bonne Boileau Aug. 8, 1780. John Peter Hamilton Boileau
Lt.-Col. late army medical department, son of the late Lestock
Francis Boileau, R.N., Inspecting Commander of Coast Guards,
diod on March 4, 1819, at the Avenue Toubridge aged 68.
Colcnel John Peter Boileau of Bengal Horse Artillery died at
Cape of Good Hope Gth March 1 838 aged 50 years 3 months
and 9 days (Born Dec. 1787). Thomas Boileau Esq. attorney
at law much and deservedly regretted died at Calcutta, June
J 806.
MASULIPATAM FORT CEMETERY.
Th« Fort is now a melancholy ruin deserted except for the Port officer's bungalow. Till late in the last century Masulipatam
or Bunder, to give it its popular native name, was the seaport where troops disembarked and took the high road for the
Deocan stations. The town is a mile and a half from the Fort, a raised causeway across the swamp connecting the two.
The port of Masulipatam known as Bunder is situated at the Fort, the site of which is an island surrounded by swamps on
all sides. The Fort is very sparsely populated, practically all the buildings being in ruins, except the Custom House which
was the old arsenal and Port Officer's Bungalow. The trade of Masulipatam in Chintzes and coloured cloths was formerly
very extensive but when Manchester goods superseded the produce of Indian looms the trade of Masulipatam in these
articles disappeared. Mjwulipatam was until the advent of the Railways the port and depot for Secunderabad, Jalna and
Kampti. The creek is very tortuous and the distance from the creek to the mouth of the wharf is nearly 3 miles. The
depth on the bar at the mouth of the creek is about 6 feet at high water, spring tides. The port is unhealthy being
surrounded by swamps and mangrove trees.
There is an excellent account of Masulipatam in Hervey's " Ten years in India " Volume III, Chapter XI, page 280.
44 Rbbson's Pettah " the old mart was then almost deserted. The crowded cemetery is mentioned on page 283. *• Salt in
the soil renders the mortar crumble into dust." Dutch Government House and tombstones are mentioned on page 285
4 * Bunder is the only part of the Coast from Cape Comorin on which the sea does not beat with a strong surf even in
rough weather". Factory inside the Fort was used as the meeting room of the mutinous officers in 1809. In Hervey's time
\ it was tfce Brigadier's house. St. James* Church and Miss Robinson's monument are also referred to; hog hunting wa 8
then found in abundance near Bunder. Mention is also made of " Dick Sahib " (Alexander) Master Attendant at Bunder :
he supplied sailing boats for Hussain Saugor at Hyderabad, some of which were built at Coringa. (Peter Alexander died
at Masulipatam tyay 13th 1919.)
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number.
(1)
Date.
KISTNA DISTRICT — cont.
Name. Inscription.
(3) (4)
MASULI PAT AM FORT CEMETERY — cont.
1867
3rd Jan.
1782.
William Lockley
Here lyeth the body of William Looklby, Serjeant in the
Artillery, who departed this life the 3rd day of Janu ary
aged 52 Anno Domini 1782.
1868 Sept. 1787. William Blacker
1869
1870
1871
11th Deo.
1789.
21st Jan.
1790.
22nd May
1790.
Ann Banks
Ann Britain
Sarah Newbery
1872
3rd Feb.
1792.
Samuel Statham
1873 16th Aug. Anns Vander Pbet.
1793.
TOL. U— 18A
[Captain William Blacker, Commandant of the Seventh
Battalion of the Coast Native Infantry.]
Urquhart, who prints the following epitaph to his memory : —
*' Ye ardent youths, aspiring after fame.
Whose bosoms kindle at a soldier's name ;
Ye lauroird veterans, who have often stood
Nobly intrepid, in the field of blood,
Ye social tempers, who delight to bless,
Alive to love, to friendship and distress ;
Whose fervid hearts—few such does heaven bestow—
With ev'ry gen'rous manly virtue glow ;
Ye who maintain, while spotless honour binds,
The dignity of independent minds,
Join o'er this grave, a kindred spirit prize,
And drop a tear where Blaoker's body lies.'*
Presumably related to Colonel Valentine Blacker, C.B., the historian
of the Maharatta War (1817-21), who was originally in the Madras
Light Cavalry and subsequently Quartermaster-General of the
Madras Army. He died February 4th, 1826, aged 40, and is
buried in South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta, near Major-
General " Hindoo " Stuart (d. 1828), whose tomb is the model
of a Hindoo temple.
Lt.-Col. John Munro Q r . Mr. General married Miss Charlotte Blacker
on Deo. 8, 1808. Robert Alexander, C.S., married Miss Grace
Blacker on May 6, 1809. Lieutenant George Blacker married
Miss Ann Sloane Feb. 1807.
Sacred to the memory of my beloved wife Ann Banks who
departed this life in the bloom of youth, aged 18 years
and 8 months. Not once but twice the fatal arrow flew.
My infant daughter first and then the mother slew.
Born in London Here lyeth the body of Mrs. Ann Britain,
who departed this life the 21st day of January 1790, in the
27th year of her age.
Her husband Samuel Britain was a free merchant.
Here lyeth the body of Sarah Newbery, who departed this life
the 22nd day of May 1790, aged 4 years and 3 months, also
John Newbery a young infant, who died the 27 of June
1790 and Edward Newbery, dyed 2 November 1791,
afterwards Sophia and Cicely Newbery
Mr. Jacob Newberry married Charlotte Collins Dee. 31, 1782*
(Samuel Statham, Esq., Senior Merchant, died at Masuli-
patam.)
For the memory of Mrs. Annb Vandxe Peet, who departed
this life at Masulipatam on the 16th of August 1793, aged
54 years. She was a native of Arcot in the Carnatio.
lift
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
KISTNA DISTRICT — cont.
Name. Inscription.
(3) (4)
MASULIPATAM FORT CEMETERY — cont.
1874 27th April Charles Fraser
1795.
Sacred to the memory of Colonel Charles Fraser, aged 66
years, who died at Masulipatam in command of the Northern
division of the Army. This stone is inscribed with filial
reverence and affection by his son Hastings, 1814.
See Nos. 183, 366, 1245 and 2315. The deceased had six sons and
three daughters, of whom the eldest, born at Vellore August 25th,
1771, was so named after Warren Hastings, at that time a Madras
Member of Council. Hastings Fraser fought at Seringapatam and
commanded a brigade at the taking of the island of Bourbon in
1810. He died as a General in 1854 tetat. 83. His youngest
brother General J. S. Fraser became Resident at Hyderabad.
Captain David Fraser, late 26th Cameronians, elder son of the late
Lieutenant-General Hastings Fraser and of Mrs. Hastings Fraser
died suddenly at Madras on the 17th January 1912.
1875 8th Aug. Thomas Graham . . (Thomas Graham Died August 8, 1795, at Masulipatam.)
1795.
He joined the army in 1790 as Cadet and was Lieutenant October
24, 1793.
H. S. E. integer et urbanus, cui summae fuerunt animi dotes
quas ad extremum fovit, machinarum minis artifex, necnon
in Uteris humanioribus ac musicis versatus, Michael Topping,
mathematicus admodum solers ; ingenii multa quidem
pignora posteris reliquit et missus in has regiones astron-
omiam excolere, societatis mercaturae in India orientali
faciendee sumptibus, speculam sideralem iuxta sancti Georgii
arcem formavit et posuit ; officio functo promittens maiora
occubuit febri, Jany. 7 A.D. 1796, setat 48.
According to Urquhart 44 his death was occasioned by a
malignant fever, the consequence of over-exertion in a survey
of the northern tanks, after a severe inundation/' He came out
to Madras as Government Astronomer and gave the first idea of
the Godavari anicut, which Sir Arthur Cotton revived with such
admirable success. He was the author of several able reports,
one of which, being a journal of the first survey of Coringa harbour
(1789), is quoted in Mr. Henry Morris' 44 Godavari Manual."
William Hodges, R.A., in his 44 Book of Travels in India during
the years 1780 to 1783," gives an engraving of the great pagoda
at Tan j ore stating that the picture is one which he painted from an
accurate drawing made by Mr. Topping " an ingenious friend of
mine now on a survey of the coast of Coromandel for the E.I*
Company ". Cecil Smith, C.S., married Miss Eliza Topping, May
10th, 1793.
Captain M. Topping made a chart of the Bay of Bengal in 1788.
In 1790 he was appointed to make a survey of the Godavari
river, a service which he performed most creditably, and in 1792
he was taking observations for determining the course of currents
in the Bay of Bengal.
Lieutenant Rose married Miss Topping in 1791. On April 10th 1787
Lieutenant John Topping of the Artillery married at Calcutta
Miss Elizabeth Hunter.
1877 24th Feb. Mary Gorman . . Here layeth the body of Mary Gorman who departed this life
1799* the 24th day of February 1799, aged 13 years and 4 months.
(Excellent preservation). Edward Gorman married Helena July
19, 1796 at Pondicherry.
■' -
1878 4th Dee. Gbobgb Davidson . . (George Davidson died/December 4, 1799 at Masulipatam.)
1799.
He was cadei in 1782, and 2nd Lieut. April 10, 1783.
1876 7th Jan. Michael Topping . .
1796.
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Date.
(2)
KISTNA DISTRICT-
Name.
(3)
-eont.
Inscription.
1870
1880
10th May
1801.
30th May.
1801.
MA SULIPATAM PORT CEMETERY — cont.
George Collier . . Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant George Collier, of the
2nd Battalion 8th Regiment Nativo Infantry, who died on the
19th of May 1801, aged 19 years.
He joined the Army in 1799.
Charlotte Newberry. Mrs. Charlotte Newberry, aged 35 years.
Children young four and one
Before thee into glory gone.
Thou with them are out of harm
So rest in my Redeemer's arm.
Life how short
Eternity how long.
Her husband Jacob Newberry was a Conductor of Ordnance, who
married Charlotte Collins at Madras, December 31st, 1782. He
died on the 15th Oct. 1812 in his 65th year.
At Masulipatam on 22nd July 1799 Lieut. James Hall married Miss
Newberry, daughter of Mr. J. Newberry of the same place. He
died at Ganjam Mar. 4, 1803. He was of the Artillery.
1881
23rd Sept.
1801.
Richard Denton
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
20th June
1802.
28th May
1804.
15th Oct.
1804.
4th Nov.
1804.
28th Oct.
1805.
Robert Thompson
John Elam
Taylor
Malcolm M'Gregor.
Lewis Maokib
12th Deo. John Herring
1806.
22nd Sept. James Barter
1807.
1889
1890
21st Oct.
1807.
John Wright
Sacred to the memory of Mr. Richard Denton, who departed
this life the 23rd of September 1801, aged 38 years.
Deaths head and cross bones.
Master Attendant. He married Nancy Reason (a native) August
28th, 1790. He was Seaman under Mr. Topping 1786'*.
Mr. Robert Thompson Conductor [of Ordnance] died 20th
June 1802.
(John Elam M.E.R.)
He joined the Army in 1802 as Cadet.
Here lieth the body of the infa it son of Lieut.-Col. A. Taylor,
who departed this life the 15th day of October 1804.
Here lieth the body of Major Malcolm M'Gregor who departed
this life 4th day of Novber. 1804.
Of the 10th N.I. (invalided in 1802). He joined the army in 1778
as cadet, was Lieut. April 1, 1783, Captain June 1, 1796 and
Major Dec. 10, 1799.
(At Masulipatam Lieut. Lewis Mackie M.E.R.)
He was a Cadet in 1803 and Lieut. September 21, 1804.
Here lieth the body of John Herring who departed this life
12th December 1806 aged 4 years.
Sacred to the memory of James Barter, Esq., Garrison Surgeon
of Masulipatam who departed this life on the 22nd day of
September, in the year of our Lord 1807.
A Thomas Barter, shopkeeper from England 1786, residing at
Masulipatam figures in the E.I. Kalendar for 1791.
(Captain John Wright died October 21, 1807 at Masulipatam.)
He was Cadet in 1794, Lieutenant June 1, 1796 and Captain
September 21, 1804.
19th May
1«08.
William Auchinback. (William Auchinback died at Masulipatam May 19, 1808.)
He joined the army as Cadet in 1806.
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number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
KISTNA DISTRICT — cont.
Name.
Inscription.
1891 13th Jan.
1809.
(3) W
MASULIPATAM FORT CEMETERY — cont.
William Godfrey
1892 10th Juno
1809.
1893 7th April
1810.
1894 25th May
1810.
1895 17th April
1811.
1896 10th May
1811.
1897 27th July
1812.
1898 29th Aug.
1813.
1899 20th Sept.
1813.
1900 23rd Nov.
1813.
1901 23rd Nov.
1813.
1902 16th Jan.
1814.
1903 9th Mar.
1814.
Joseph Street
Thomas Birt
Joseph Denman
Bateman.
Georoe Parsons . .
Nixon
Amelia Elizabeth
Greaves.
Francis Green
Alexander MoCor-
mick.
Edwin Robinson
Smyth.
Charles Bathurst . .
E. S. Munro
Thomas Mbrceb
Major William Godfrey, aged 59 years, having faithfully
served the H.E.I.C. for the period of 39 years.
Of the non-effective Establishment. He was invalided March
1791. He married Miss Elizabeth Leake, July 1787. He joined
the army in 1767 as cadet, was Lieutenant Oct. 15, 1780, Captain
May 8, 1784 and Major April 30, 1802.
Joseph Street, Esq., Surgoon, aged 41 years.
On 20th Dec. 1810 at Yalton Villa in Masulipatam Capt. J. Hall 15th
N.I married Miss Frances Street.
[Lieutenant Thomas Birt, of the Coast Artillery.]
Urquhart. " He died by a haemorrhage on the lungs." Of the
1st Battalion Artillery. He joined the Artillery 1803 and was
Lieut. July 18, 1804.
(Lieutenant Joseph Denman Bateman 5th Native Infantry
died 25th May 1810 at Masulipatam.)
He was a Cadet in 1804 and Lieutenant July 17, 1805.
[Captain George Parsons of the Royal Regiment H.M. Royals],
Urquhart, Vol. HI, p. 208.
He has served his Majesty upwards of 30 years in different quarters
of the globe and was present during the whole of the ever memo-
rable campaign in Egypt under the gallant General Abercrombie.
. (Assistant Surgeon Mr. Nixon).
Sacred to the memory of Amelia Euzabeth Greaves, infant
daughter of W. D. Greaves, Esq. and of Joanna, his wife,
27th July 1812.
William Dodd Greaves married Miss Johanna Harrison March 4,
1808.
(Lieutenant Francis Green 1st Battalion 11th Native Infantry
died at Masulipatam August 29, 1813.)
He was cadet in 1800 and Lieutenant July 20, 1801.
(Lieutenant Alexander McCormick of the 1st Battalion 15th
Regiment, Native Infantry, died September 20, 1813 at
Masulipatam.)
He was a cadet in 1806 and Lieutenant July 29, 1809.
(Lieutenant Edwin Robinson Smyth died November 23, 181 J
at Masulipatam).
He was a Cadet in 1802 and Lieutenant 26 May, 1804.
Rev. Charles Bathurst, A. M., chaplain of this station.
He was appointed by the Directors in 1806. On arrival at Madras
he was sent to Masulipatam and was there for six years till his
death. The officers of the Garrison erected a monument to his
memory in the church within the fort (Rev. F. Penny's Church in
Madras Vol. II, p. 357.)
(E. S. Munro died 16th January 1814 at Masulipatam.)
He joined the artillery in 1804 and was Lieutenant, February 14
1805.
Lieutenant Thomas Mercer of H.M. 86th Regiment, aged 2ft
years. *
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Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
(3)
Inscription.
(4)
MASULIPATAM FORT CEMETERY — conL
1814.
1904 1st July Robert Nicholson, Capt. Robert Nicholson H.M. 86th R.C.D. regiment; aged
28 years and Lieut. Duncan Maclachlan of the same oorps
who died the following day, aged 22 £ears.
Nicholson was nephew of Lieutenant- General Nicholson, Bombay
Army, and Maclachlan, the son of R. Maclachlan of Dunad,
Argyleshire. R.C.D. stands for Royal County Down.
Duncan Maclach-
lan.
1905
1906
8th July
1814.
21st April
1816.
John William Whyte.
Claud Russell
1907 18th Sept.
1816.
1908 26th Nov.
J816.
Timothy Hevey
1909 13th April
1817.
1910 18th May
1817.
1911 8th Feb.
1818.
1912 7th ; y July
1820.
1913 15th Deo.
1820.
Captain John William Whyte of the Commissariat in the
32nd year of his age.
Claud Russell, eldest son of George Edward and Caroline
Russell, who died at GollapDllam near Masulipatam, aged
1 year 8 months and 24 years.
O.E. Russell, a grandson of Lord Pigot, .married Caroline Bowness,
July 7th, 1813. He bocame Collector of Masulipatam at nine
years' service, and was acting Governor in 1837. (He had a son
born at Masulipatam on Nov. 2,1815. Asiatic Journal, July 1816).
His father Claud Russell, Member of Council, married Miss Leonora
Pigot, October 17th, 1777 ; and the Hon'ble Edward Monokton,
also a civil servant, married her sister Sophia Pigot, March 14th,
1776.
(Lieutenant Timothy Hevey diod September 18, 1816, at
► Masulipatam.)
He was cadet in 1806 and Lieutenant July 31, 1811.
Charles Robert Ross. Charles Robert Ross, Collector of Kurpah, who at this place
while engaged on an especial duty closed an active and
virtuous life at the early age of 33 years. Esteem and love
rest on his memory.
Indian cottons are still known in the London Market as Kurpahg.
He died at Masulipatam at the house of the Collector, Mr. G. Russell.
He was the third son of General Patrick Ross, who married Miss
Mary Clara Maule, December 25th, 1777. There is a monument
to hiB memory in St. Mary's Fort St. George (No. 410 ). Mrs.
Wickens (No. 2779) is his aunt.
In 1802 Patrick Ross became M.P. for Horsham and died Aug. 24
1804. Captain George Maule (of Engineers) married Miss
Catherine Clayton Feb. 10, 1779 in the house of Colonel Capper.
He was killed at the siege of Pondicherry 1793. She died on her
passage from India to Europe July 179$.
Robert Croker . . (Lieutenant-General Robert Croker of the Madras Establish-
ment, aged 68 years after 45 years Military service.)
Robert Monro . . Colonel Robert Monro, aged 53 years.
Cashiered in the 1809 Mutiny, March 7, 1810 ; restored Jan. 28,
l$i4. He joined the army in 1781 and became Colonel June 4*
. 1814.
On December 8th, 1808, Colonel John Monro married Miss Charlotte
Blaoker, sister of Colonel Valentine Blacker (see Nos 1868 and
2795.)
Thomas Wtllson (Lieut.CoL Thomas. Willson died on February 8, 1818).
He joined the army in 1780 as cadet, was Lieutenant November 1
1788, Captain September 29, 1798, Major, April 24, 1804 and
Lieutenant-Colonel February 25, 1807.
Richard
Hodges
Harris (Lieut. Richard Harris Hodges died at Masulipatam Julv
7th, 1820.) ' *
He was Cadet in 1806 and Lieutenant June 1, 1815*
James Jameson . . (Lieutenant JaMes Jameson died December 15, 1$20 at Masuli
pat am.)
He was cadet in 1804 and Lieutenant February 10, 1806.
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KISTNA DISTRICT — cont.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
Inscription.
1914 8th Dec. John Coventry
1821.
1915 4th Juno Thomas Dale
1822.
(3) (4)
MASULIPATAM FORT CEMETERY — cont.
. . (Lieutenant John Coventry (Engineers) died 8th December
1821 at Masulipatam.)
He was cadet in 1809 and Lieutenant February 8, 1815.
, . (Lieutenant Thomas Dale died 4th Juno 1822 at Masulipatam.)
He was cadet in 1806 and Lieutenant November 7, 1810.
1916 22nd Aug. Charles Wad dell.
1822.
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
9th Sept.
1822.
2nd July
1823.
12th Nov.
1823.
Henry Hodges
Robert Young
William Peyton
9th Dec. Georoe Ashby
1823. Barnard.
1st June William Henry
1824. Pears.
1922
1923
26th Mar.
1825.
Charles Forbes
20th Aug. Jambs W. Gordon
1825.
1924 9th July Frederick Crowe
1826.
1925 20th Mar.
1827.
Wtlhklmina
Branson.
Captain Charles Waddell, Paymaster H.S. Force, aged 34
years.
He married, December 28th, 1819, Eliza Anne, second daughter of
Honry Harris, M.D. (No. 544).
(Lieutenant Hknry Hodges of the Madras European Regiment
died September 9, 1822 at Masulipatam.)
He was cadet in 1810 and Lieutenant, December 22, 1817.
Sacrodtothe memory of Captain Robert Young who departed
this life July 2nd 1823.
He married at Vellore September 9, 1819 Mary, daughter of Lieute-
nant-Colonel Hazlewood, East India Company.
Captain William Peyton, 19th N.I. *
He married Miss Kitty Powney at Pondioherry, July 26th, 1813.
(George Ashby Barnard died 9th December 1823 at Masuli.
pa tarn.)
He was cadet in 1822.
Lieutenant William Henry Pears of the Madras Engineers,
born at Oxford Jan. 19th, 1806.
" Ensign in H. C. Engineers acting Superintending Engineer for the
N.D. doing duty at this place aged 18 years."
Second son of Rev. James Pears, at that time Curate of Holton,
Oxford, and afterwards Rector of Charlcombe, Bath and a musical
composer of some distinction. Two of his brothers served in this
Presidency ; Thomas Townshend, Madras Engineers, born 1809,
who rose to be Major- General, K.C.B., and Military Secretary
at the India Office, and died in 1893 ; and Arnold Christian,
Lieutenant-Colonel, Madras Artillery, born 1811, died at Bath,
May 15th, 1891, who was Postmaster- General of Madras from
1859 to 1872. T. T. Pears sent two sons to India ; Maurice,
B. C. S., and Thomas, who was Lieutenant-Colonel and Resident
in Nepaul, Jaipur and Kashmir. A. C. Pears was the father of
Steuart Durand and Arthur Grant Pears, both of the P.W.D.
(Captain Charles Forbes died March 26, 1825 at Masulipatam.)
He was cadet in 1802, Lieutenant January 2, 1804 and Captain
February 9, 1818.
(Ensign J. W. Gordon died 20th August 1825 at Masulipatam.)
He was cadet in 1821 and Ensign April 27, 1822.
(Frederick Crowe died 9th July 1826 at Masulipatam).
He was cadet in 1804, Lieutenant, July 19, 1807 and Captain July
18, 1821.
(Wilhelmika Pitt, wife of Henry Wilkins Branson, shop*
keeper, residing at Masulipatam died aged 10 years 11
months and 11 days.)
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Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
Inscription.
1926 29th June
and 8th
July 1827.
1927 13th Oct.
1827.
1928 6th Nov.
1828.
1929 2nd Fob.
1832.
1930 25th May
1833.
1931 10th Sept.
1833.
1932 25th Deo.
1833.
1933 28th Aug.
1858.
(3) (4)
MASULIPATAM FORT CEMETERY — cont.
James Willis,
Robert
Garraway.
Samuel Marshall
Benjamin Hoofer
Allen Roberts
Alexander Tulloh.
Lieutenant J. Willis, 38th N.I., who died, aged 21 years on
the 29th June and Lieutenant and Quarter Master R. Garra-
way, who died, aged 25 years on the 8th July 1827. Erected
by their brother officers.
Robert Garraway was Quartermaster and interpreter. Madras
Almanao of 1828 gives 25th June IS 27 as the date of the death
of Lieutenant James Wallis.
Mr. Mackenzie writes in his manual : " Court-martial records
have preserved a tragic story of a young officer killing another
with a billiard cue here in 1827." The former mess house with
a small theatre was used as the station club. It was burnt
down in June 1911.
(Lieutenant Samuel Marshall died October 13, 1827 at
Masulipatam.)
He was cadet in 1824 and Lieut. February 19, 1827.
Captain Benjamin Hooper, European Regiment, aged 41 years.
He joined the army as Cadet in 1804, was Lieutenant July 17, 1805
and Captain September 1, 1818.
(Major Allen Roberts died February 2, 1832 at Masulipatam.)
He was cadet in 1803, Lieutenant 21st September 1804, Captain
February 28, 1819 and Major May 20, 1828.
(Captain Alexander Tulloh died May 25, 1833 at Masuli-
patam.)
He was cadet in 1809, Lieutenant July 28, 1814 and Captain May 1,
1824.
Henry George (Henry George, son of H. W. Branson Merchant and Eliza Cor-
Branson. nelia Wilson Wellington his wife aged 8 months and 11 days.)
Alexander Ed. (Captain Alexander Edwards Spioer died 25th December
Wards Spicer. 1833 at Masulipatam.)
He was cadet in 1306, Lieutenant August 13, 1809 and Captain
May 1, 1824.
Richard Alexander. Richard Alexander, aged 83. * Those who loved him best
regret him the worst.'
Wife Mary Ann died, date not known. Mrs. Joyce Alexander,
wife of Peter Alexander, died 9th August 1810, aged 62 years and
9 months.
CYCLONE MONUMENT IN THE FORT, MASULIPATAM.
1934 1st Nov. Anthony Fruvall This monument commemorates the melancholy fate of Anthony
1864. and 30,000 others. and Maria Fruvall, their sons, Joseph, Michael, Peter ^
Manuel and Daniel and their daughter, Mary Ann Honey
and her children Joseph and Gborgiana, and about 30,000
souls, who were all unexpectedly swept into eternity by the
ocean wave, which desolated this town on the night of the
cyolone of 1st November, 1864. Manuel Fruvall anxious to
pay a tribute of affection to the memory of his brother and
family and to express his cordial sympathy with his sur-
viving fellow-citizens, has caused this pillor [sic] to be erected
on the very spot where his relatives perished (which for
years had been their happy home). To perpetuate the
remembrance of this awful event and to serve at the same
time as a lasting memorial of the grateful feeling with which
he and the entire population recognize the unceasing and
noble-hearted exertions of their worthy Chief Magistrate,
vol. n— 19
146
KISTNA DISTRICT — cont.
mwber. Dat6, Nama - Inflcription.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
CYCLONE MONUMENT IN THE FORT, MASULIPATAM— coni.
Q. Thornhill, Esquire, to console the survivors and relieve as
far as human succor [sic] could avail the distress of the
inhabitants.
" O ye seas and rivers bless the Lord.
Praise and exalt him above all for ever."
Dan. Ill, 78.
The text is from the Song of the Three Holy Children in the Fir©
which appears in the Apocrypha as part of the third chapter of
Daniel. Manuel Fruvall was a Rhop- keeper, and there are persons
of his name buried at Hyderabad. Shortly after the cyclone a
traditional land mark at Bunder disappeared in the shape of
" Eliza's Tree". Eliza Draper, Sterne's correspondent, had
stayed at Masulipatam with her uncle John Whitehill, after her
elopement from Daniel Draper's house at Mazagon, Bombay, on
July 12th, 1773, and spent much of her time under this tree, which
was the general resort of the station " to eat the air " both in
her day and- long afterwards. An unsupported Masulipatam
tradition describes Mrs. Draper as a fair Eurasian with dark eyes.
She was the daughter of May Sclater, a Bombay factor, and his
wife, a Miss Whitehill, and was born at Anjengo, April 5th, 1744.
John WhitehilJ, her uncle, was chief of Masulipatam from October
28th to December 11th, 1773, and again from April 22nd, 1774,
to January 29th, 1776. He acted twice as Governor of Madras
for short periods in 1777 and 1780, and obtained an inauspicious
notoriety in connection with the Nuzveed Zemindary scandal,
which led in 1783 to the introduction of a bill of pains and penalties
against him in Parliament. For Eliza Draper, eee a good
article in the Bombay Quarterly Review for January and April
1857, Vol. V. No. IX (Article VI, an age of progress in Bom-
bay).
Mr. Thornhill died in 1907.
In front of Dedel's tomb (see No. 1 936), facing the sea is the Cyclone
Monument, an obelisk on a platform approached by steps, with an
inscription below the approach (faded) and another above. On
right you enter the road passing an arrack shop near which was
the Old Flagstaff. Here is the Fort Officer's House, formerly the
offices of Messrs. Maiden & Co. In front of it is an old gate
leading to the wharf on the Canal (Water Gate).
Here stood the old Light House. Further on to the right is an old
Dutch Storehouse now used as a Repository for Bones (Granary).
It has a long and sloping roof (wooden windows with five stout
buttresses) on eaoh side and a double wooden doors. The only
living things, inmates in it, are rats, lizards and bats. In a com-
pound overgrown with Croton trees (Telugu Nepala from their
having come from Nepal) is the Belfry all that remains of the old
Protestant Church in the Fort. Opposite is the old Arsenal now
used as a Port Office, Custom House and Police Station. In the
Godowns, or vaults below are teak pillars inscribed No. 3 M and
No. 4 1804 : and on the other side No.2 M 1805 and No. 1 M 1846.
A horrible smell of bats pervades the vaults. At the back of the
Arsenal is the old Garrison Hospital, bought years ago by the
Nizam of Hyderabad when the port was the depot to Secundera-
bad, Kamptee and Jalna. In former days there used to be a
Hotel in the Fort and there are still traces of the Fort Ditch
(6th November 1916).
TOMB AT ENGLISHPALEM, MASULIPATAM.
1935 25th Aug. Johh RowxAifD . . Here lyeth interred the Body of John Rowland, who departed
170i # this life the 25th of August 1701.
The first English Settlement at Masulipatam was in 1611. In
August 1699 Mr. John Pitt, who died in 1703, landed there at
AgemVfor the new East India Company and assumed the title of
President of the Coromandel Coast and Consul for the King of
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KISTNA DISTRICT — cord.
Inscription.
<*)
TOMB AT ENGLISHPALEM, MASULIPATAM — cont.
England. In 1700 the old Company resolved to re-establish a
Chief and Council there and despatched a force of twenty-four
soldiers with a Lieutenant, Sergeant and Corporal. Rowland
was probably one of the party. His tomb is in the quarter of the
town called Englishpalem, which was the site of the H.E.I.C*
factory, as Frenchpeta and Valandupalem were of the French and
Dutch Companies. There are other tombs there which were
repaired and cemented over some years ago. Rowland's is the
only inscription now legible. Tradition has it that Captain
Alexander Callender (District Manual, pages 61 et seq.) is buried
there. He was one of the heroes of Forde's capture of Masuli*
patam from De Conflans in 1759. At the hour fixed for the
assault, he mysteriously vanished, but reappeared when the
contest was at its height and fell by the last shot fired. " I think
it was lucky for him he was killed for he certainly must have been
broke if not worse." (Forde to Clive, June 16, 1759). Callendar
was at assault of Nellore 1757.
Captain Francis Rowland (who died Aug. 7, 1767) married at
Calcutta, Jan. 22, 1763 Mary Bull widow.
Englishpalem is a suburb of Ramanaidupet so called from Rama
Naidu, a Commissariat contractor. You reach it through
Butchupet so called from a wealthy renter of the Company's
days. You turn off Butchupet : the corner house belongs to
Tadikonda Sriramulu and the bungalow opposite to Mylaveram
Zemindar. There are 3 walled enclosures : the first with one
tomb, the second with three, the centre bearing the inscription
to Rowland (8 feet by ten, a large stone like those at Fort
St. George : these being in flourishes : inscription occupies half
the stone) and beyond it in a vegetable garden another, 3rd
enclosure in another cemented tomb. In the distance (to the
west of Rowland's) rises the tower of a new temple to Ramudu.
OLD FORT PARADE GROUND, MASULIPATAM.
1936 29th Aug. Jacob Dedel . . Hier leyt begraven den E. Jacob Dedel in syn leven Raet
1624. Van Indien ende opperhooft te water ende te lande over de
Nederlantse Negotie deser ouste Cormandel overleden
den 29 Augusty Anno 1624.
44 Here lies buried the Honorable Jacob Dedel, in his life councillor
of India and chief by land and by water of the Netherlands East
India Company on the Coromandel Coast, died August 29th,
1624."
See the English Faotories in India, 1624-29, page 17 : — " August
22. This day the principall for the Dutch at Masslapatam
[died ?], being named DeadelJ, hee being in his lifetime a deadly
enimye to our natione, as most of all there principalis are to this
daye ". The Dagh Register, 1624-29, (p. 103) gives the date of
his death as 29th Aug. (N.S. =» 19th Aug. O.S.).
This is the oldest Dutch inscription in the Madras Presidency, if
not in India. It is inscribed on a detached tomb in the old
parade ground within the Fort with white rails near the small
Gunpowder Magazine ; not far oft is the cyclone monument*
In't Jaar 1624 was hier als Opperhoofd besoheyden de Heer Admiraal
Jacob Dedol^ die ook in September des zelven Jaars, den weg
van alle vleysch ging, en in de Logie, onder het grot© pakhuys,
dat op het pleyn staat, begraven wierd.
Chiefs of Mas ulipa tarn.
1st Andries Soury died in Rotterdam 1622 A.D. 1620-22.
2nd Abraham van Uffelen 1622-1624.
3rd Jacob Dedel, Zeevoogd hier overleden 1624,
4th Johannes Libenaar 1625.
5th Jacob de Wit 1631.
6th Jan van Melderd 1634.
7th Jan de Meerre 1635.
. , „ 8th Arnold Heussen (van Delft), died in Leyden 1640.
9th Bartholomaeus de Gruyter 1639-1642.
10th Pleter Syme died in Enkhuyhen 1642-1649.
11th Jaeob Junius (President) died in Delft 1649.
12th Laurens Pit.
Serial
umber
'l> (2) (3)
number. Dat# - Name -
vol. n— 19a
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SSL. Date ' Name - Inaoription.
(1) (2) , (3) (4)
OLD FORT PARADE GROUND, MASULIPATAM— cont.
Chiefs of Maeulipatam — cont,
13th Cornelia Van Quaalberg.
14th Ludolph Van Coulster.
15th Jaques Caulier van Ghent 1659-1666.
Daniel Havart (p. 153, part 1) calls Jacob Dcdel *' Heer Admiraal '*
and states that he was buried in the Logie (factory) at Masuli-
patam " under the Great Warehouse."
Rietstags : Armorial General (2d ed.) gives " Dedel. HolL (Affnobli
16 September 1815 barons 18 Dec. 1844) De Sinopte a trois fleurs
de lis d'or Cimier deux bra.*'
DUTCH CEMETERY AT MASULIPATAM.
Mr. Gordon Mackenzie writes in the " Kistna Manual " as follows : — " The site where the Dutch had their villa residences
is still known as Valandupalem, a corruption of Hollandpalem, and their burial-ground is in a corner of the compound of a
bungalow behind the Collector's office. It contains several tombstones in very good preservation. The stone is the hard
ndpa r&yi on which the Hindoos carve their inscriptions, but the Dutch must have had a trained stonemason, for almost every
stone bears a coat-of-arms, executed with considerable skill. Even the gravestone of an obscure Sehipper or sea captain
probably not of a degree to bear coat armour, has an effigy of the deceased with the three-cornered hat and long coat, fami-
liar in old illustrations, reminding one that this Dutch skipper was a contemporary of those bold mariners, Gulliver and
Robinson Crusoe. The"graves are enclosed by a good masonry wall, but some inscriptions have disappeared before that
destructive personage, the village herdboy, who, stone in hand, delights to chip off the raised letters that tell of the virtues
of long buried merchants and their vrouws." Other stones have been carried off by dhobies for beating clothes. The five
inscriptions quoted by Mr. Mackenzie are reproduced here, together with the complete text of the other Dutch epitaphs, as
prepared by Mr. Robert MorriB, Collector of Kistna, and Rev. Father van do Westelaken.
1937 10th June Johannes Nantius. Onder desen steen leyt begraven Johannes Nantius van
1646. Middelburg in syn leven ondercoopman oud 28 jaren is
overleden 10 Juni Ao 1646.
Under a tree in the far corner ; different stone to the other ; imbedded.
This stone came from the old sub-jail compound opposite the
MunsifTs Court, which was the Dutch Council House.
1938 18th May Evert Evbrman
1662.
1939
21st Mar.
1677.
Pus tub Smith
Hier leyt begraven Evert Everman van Bremen in zyn leven
sehipper ten dienste den N. Oostindische Compe bescheyden
op't fluyt schip Pegu in den Heere ontslapen den 18 May
des jaers 1662 out geweest synde 35 jaeren.
Man to life with cocked hat (three cornered), long hair or wig, long
buttoned coat, scabbard, drawn sword in hand.
Memento mori. Hier leyt begraven den E. Pieter Smith in
syn leven ten dienst der vereenigde Nederlandse Oostindische
Compe, oppercoopman, twee de van't Chormandelsch
Gouvernement, en opperhooft vant contoir Masulipatam end
onderhorige vandien, geboren tot Tayoan, gestorven alhier
den 21 en Maart Ao 1677 out 39 jaren 4 maanden 13 dagen.
Het dor gebeent van Smith rust onder deze zerk
In't beste van zijn tijd en't bloeyenst van zijn leven
Heeft hy zijn waarde ziel den Schepper weer gegeven,
Verlatende met een al't aards, en ydel werk,
Nu loofd, en prijst hy God bevrijd van swerelds plagen,
Niemand gelukkig voor het eynde van 'zijn dagen.
€< The dry bones of Smith rest under this slab,
In the bloom of his days and the prime of his life,
He hath given back his worthy soul to the Creator,
Relinquishing straightway all earthly vanities.
Now freed from the plagues of this world, he lauds and
praises God.
No man is happy before the end of his days."
149
KISTNA DISTRICT — cont.
Inscription.
(4)
DUTCH CEMETERY AT MASULIPATAM — cont.
Bird with horse shoe in mouth — Stork which is more like an ostrich.
Lion reproduced once on shield, once over Knight's casque.
Tayouan is the native name of Formosa, where the Dutch at a very
early period had a settlement. At Colombo there is a tomb to
Adriana Alebos, wife of Floris Blom 41 gebooren in Tayouan
opt eyland Formosa " December 12th, 1656, and died September
23rd, 1684.
1940 20tlT Sept. Abbaham Bolwbrck. Hier leyt begraven Abraham Florisse Bolwerck geboortigh
1677. van Elbing in syn leven kranckbesoecker in dienst der
E. Corap 0 . obyt alhier ten comptoire Masulipatnam den 20en
September Ao 1677 out 68 jaren.
Mars sola Fatetur Quantula SintHominum Corpuscula.
Juven.
Den afgeleefden Abraham
Die zieken met Gods woord kon laven,
Legd onder deze zerk begraven,
Zijn ziel is boven by het lam,
Daar duysend Englen met haar scharen,
Gods lof, en heerlijkheyd verklaren.
'* The aged (lit. having lived out his life to the end with no desire
to go on living) Abraham could refresh the sick with God's word.
Now ho lies buried under this stone, but his soul is above with
the Lamb, where thousands of angels with their choirs declare
God's love and sovereignty." Kranckbesoecker means literally
4t visitor of the sick." Abraham's widow Joanna died at Pulicat,
May 18th, 1684, aged 70.
1941 3rd Oot. Johann Kruyf and Memento mori. Dese zerk begrypt onder zig de doode lich-
1678 and Catharina Van amen van Catharina Van Den Briel van Amsterdam en
1st Jan. Den Briel. Johannes Kruyf van Tayouan onderkoopman in dienst
1679. den E. Compa., jonge dogter en jong man geboren den
15 Aug. 1657 en 28 Nov. 1649 overleden hier ten contoire
3 October 1678 en 1 January 1679 out 21 iaren 1 maent 19
daagen en 29 iaren 1 maenten 3 dagen. Requiescant in
pace.
Quod Que Rogis Superest, un a Requiesoit in urna.
Ovid*
Een vryer en een maegd bedeckt dees eene steen
Haer byder mening was van twee te worden een,
Maer d' overwrede dood belette dit vergaren.
Eerst gaf Den Briel het op, en doe wierd Kruyf een lyk,
Haer lyven rotten hier, maer in des Hemels ryck
Zal God de zielen van de twee gelieven paren.
With more lines on the reverse of the stone : a quotation — Componi
tumulo non invideatis eodem — Ovid.
This slab hides within it the dead bodies of Catharine van den
Briel of Amsterdam and John Kruyf of Tayouan, junior merchant
in the service of the Honorable Company, young woman and
young man, born the 15th August 1657 and 28th November 1649,
died at the factory here the 3rd October 1678 and 1st January
1670, aged 21 years 1 month and 19 days and 29 years 1 month
and 3 days.
A lover and a maid this one stone covereth ;
Their mutual meaning was of twain to make one :
But too cruel Death forbad their union.
First Den Briel gave it up, and then Kruyf becamn a
corpse.
Their bodies rot here, but in Heaven's kingdom
Shall God the souls of the two lovera pair/'
(1) (2) (3)
150
KISTNA DISTRICT — cont.
nSSL Date - Name - Inscription.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
DUTCH CEMETERY AT MASULIPATAM — cont.
1942 16th Feb. Johanna Huysman. Sic transit gloria mundi. Het dode lichaam van JufFrow
1682. Joanna Bolwerk in haar leven huisvrow van ten koopman
en twede hier den contoire Sr Johannes Huysman rust
onder dese zerk overleden den 16en February Ao. 1682 oud
43 jaren 11 maanden en 8 dagen.
Eheu Fugaces. Labunter Anni. Horat.
Terwijl ik Woonplaats had beneden
Had ik de ellende tot mijn lot
Met ziektens wierd ik steeds bestreden
Tot dat het den alwijzen God
Beliefde mijne ziel op heden
To plaatzen by der Englen rot.
Daar leve ik vry van ziekte en quijnen
Oeen beter ruyling als de mijne.
44 The dead body of Mistress Jane Bolwerk, in her life wife of th*
merchant Sieur John Huysman, second here in charge of th*
factory, rests under this slab.
While I lived here beneath,
Had I sorrow to my lot,
With sickness was I ever bested,
Till that the all wise God
Was pleased my soul in peace
To place by the angel choir.
There live I free from pain and decay,
No better exchange than mine. "
Above Knight's Casque, angel with drawn sword (really bestriding
the casque) and below 2 lines regarding a bulwark. Angel of
Death with a flaming sword.
John Pitts, Johannes Huysman and Rohnier Jacobson were Gover-
nor and Council of Pulicat in August 1686. Quijnen is a very
ancient and obsolete word meaning fading and wasting away.
Jan Huysman was brother of Marten Huysman. The latter was
stationed in Ceylon as 3 of his children were born in Jaffna A.D.
1666-72.
Hier leyt begraven Hendrick Van Almonde zoontie van den
ondercoopman en fiseael deses oomptoirs Masulipatnam
Jacob Van Almonde geboren den 14en November 1681 en
overleden 28en August i Ao. 1682.
Van Almonde's first wife died at Pulicat, October 30th, 1761.
1944 17th Feb. Elizabeth Van Den Het dode lichain van Juffrow Elizabeth Van Erpecum in haar
1685. Briel. leven waarde huysvrow van Sr Marten van den Briei*
onderkoopman en administrateur der specery pakhuis en
alhier wagt onder dese serk d'ure der laaste opstaanding
Sy storf den 17en Feby 1685 en was out 60 iaren, 5 manden
en 17 dagen. Mors sola port us.
Belesen, deugdsaam, vroom, standvastig van gemoed,
Niet ligt veranderlijk door voor of tegen — winden,
Zo was zy wiens gebeent hier onder is te vinden,
Den Amstel was haar wieg, daar wierd sy opgevoet,
Hier storf s'in God vernoegd, van dagen sat en iaren,
Ha ar vrome ziel sal met de cherubynen paren.
1943 28th Aug. Hendrick Van
1682. Almonde.
151
KISTNA DISTRICT — cont.
Name. Inscription.
(3) (4)
DUTCH CEMETERY AT MASULIPATAM — cont.
" The dead body of Mistress Elizabeth Erpecum, in her life the
worthy spouse of Sieur Marten van don Briel, junior merchant
and warehousokeeper, here awaits under this slab the hour of
the last upstanding. She died the 17th February 1685, and wag
aged 00 years.
Cultured, virtuous, pious, steadfast of mind,
Not lightly changeable by winds to and fro,
Such was she whoso bones are to bo found beneath.
The Amstel was her cradle, there was sho brought up.
Here died she in God contented, full of days and years.
Her pious soul shall with the cherubim pair.'*
1945 15th Aug. Jacob Corbbsiek and Dees steen bedeckt de rompen van den E. Hr. Jacob Corbesier
1687. Family. geboortig van Uytrecht in syn leven oppercoopman in dienst
der E. Comp en geeliefoert secunde by den Ed. Heer Gouver-
neur tot Palliacatta obiit alhier den 15 Augustus 1687 oud
synde omtrent 51 iaaren. Juffrouw Maroarieta Booms
van Amsterdam syne saligers houysvrouwe alhier gesturven
den 24en Augustus 1687 oud ontrent 46 iaaren. Sr Adrien
_ Bloc keel van Yssendyek synde geweest ondercoopman in
gemelten dienst en opperhoofd van't comptoire Daetche-
rom aldaer overleden den 19 Mey 1687 oud synde ontrent
40 iaoren. Juffrouw Elizabeth Frontenius, geboortig tot
Pallicatta syn huysvrouwe en dochter van voornoemde
Juffrouw alhier outslapen den 24 Moert 1688 oucl ontrent 21
iaaren. Sr Wilhelm Frontenius mede van Pallicatta in
syn leven adsistent in dienst den E. Comp. en brooder van de
Jufrouw verdroncken tusschen des plaetzeen Palicol den 14
October 1687 oud synde ruym 31 iaaren. Jacobus Corbesier
dejonge geboortig tot Daetcherom soon van eerst genoemden
Hr- en Jufr. mede alhier overleden den 21 September 1687
oud synde omtrent 7 iaaren.
Soo dat hier leggen een vader een moeder
Een suster twee broeders
Tweo mannen en twee wyven
Dog niefc meer dan ses lyven.
41 This stone covers the corpses of the Hon. James Corbesier, native
of Utrecht, in his life senior merchant in the service of the
Hon'ble Company, and chosen as second by the Hon. the
Governor of Pulicat, died here the 15th August 1687, aged about
51 years ; Mrs. Margaret Booms of Amsterdam, his late wife,
died here the 24th August 1687, aged about 46 years ; Mr, Adrian
Blockeel of Issendyck, (near Zealand), formerly junior merchant
in the abovementioned service, and chief of the factory at
Daetcherom, died there the 19th May 1687, aged about 40 years ;
Mrs. Elizabeth Frontenius, native of Pulicat, his wife and
daughter of the aforenamed lady, fell asleep here the 24th
March 1688, aged about 21 years ; Mr. William Frontenius,
also of Pulicat, in his life assistant in the Company's
service, and brother of the lady, drowned between this
plaoe and Palicol, the 14th October 1687, aged more than
31 years ; James Corbesier the younger, born at Dsetoherom, son
of the first named husband and wife also died here, the 21st
September 1687, aged about 7 years.
So that here lie, one father, one mother,
One sister, four brothers,
Two men and two wives,
But not more than six lives."
Serial _
number. Date *
(1) (2)
152
KISTNA DISTRICT — cont.
Serial
number.
(1)
Da to. Name. Inscription.
(2) (3) (4)
DUTCH CEMETERY AT MASULIPATAM — cont.
1946
13th July
1725.
Paul Verryn
1947
1948
19th June
1728.
1734
Adriana Pla
PlETBR GOZEUYN
Maire.
Jacob Corbesier — Weird hy, en zijn gehele huysgezin van de*
pestilentiale ziekte aangetast (Havart, Vol. I, page 174).
Twee Jacobs, Margariet, en Willem rusten heir,
De moeder, voorzoon, de oude, en jonge Corbisier,
De hongers-nood, de pest, enV water deed hun aneven.
(Havart, Vol. I, p. 175).
Margarita Booms : het eerste Hollands kind, dat aan de Caab de
Goede Hoop geboren is (Havart, Vol. I, page 174; Cf. Havart,
Vol. I, page 25). She married (1) Fredericus Frontenius,
Fredikant and (2) Jacob Corbesier. Elizabeth Frontenius married
Adrian Blokkeel van Zeeland (died May 19. 1687 "in de flour
zijns levens " ; first buried in Daatserom and then in Mazulipatam).
William Frontenius : verdronk in het overvaren van de spruyt op
groot Golepalom, t usee hen Mazulipatam en Palicol den 14.
October alle in't Jaar 1687 (Havart, Vol. 1, page 174).
The records of Fort St. George mention that in 1687 there was
a great contagion at Masulipatam, which may account for some
of these deaths. The whole family must have been swept away
by the pestilence, for the charitable friend who wrote the inscrip*
tion did not know their exact ages. Dffltcherom and Paliooll
are in the Godavari district.
Hior onder loyt bograven den E. Hoer Paulus Verryn zaliger
in desselfs levon oppercoopman secunde deses Chorman —
delsen gouvornements en opperhoofd van dit Noorder district
naturt tot Amsterdam den 10 October Ao 1676 en obiit alhior
op Masulipatnam den 13 July Ao 1725 out 48 jaren 9 manden
en 3 dagen.
Eleven lines, 3 birds to Lion. Fine carving.
Hier legt begraven Adriana Jacober Johannes Pla dogter
van don E. Heer Adriaan Pla opper Koopman en opper-
hoovd van Noorder Cormandel geboren den 23 December
Ao. 1727 en overleden den 19 Juni 1728.
PieterGozeuyn [op]percoopman en opperhoovd over dit Noor-
der District Mitg 8 . tweede persoon van de gandsche Custe
Cormandel geboren tot Nagapatnam den 19 October 1732
en in den Heere outslapen den 19 May 1734 oud synde een
iaaren 7 maanden.
Hier legt begraven A [ . . . . ] Dogter van de H[eer] Pieter
Gozeuyn Maire Coopman en Opperhoofd over dit Noorder
District Mitsg 8 . tweede persoon van de gandsche custe
Cormdl alhier den 11 July 1734 en in den Heer outslapen.
1949 20th Aug. Alida Canter Vissch- Aestas non semper erit, componite nidos. Hier onder rust
1735. er. mejuffrouw Alida Kbyser, huysvrouw van den E. Mr.
Adrianus Canter Visscher, ondercoopman en nscaal te
deser factorie gebooren tot Delfd den 10 December Ao 1713
en alhier in den Heere outslapen den 20 Auguflty Ao 1735
oud 21 jaren 8 maanden en 10 dagen.
I960 15thOct.[?] Maria Maire •. Onder desen zark legt begraven M'luffrouw Maria Wilhbl-
1735. mina Gambier Zalr gemalinne van den. E. E. Heer Gozewyn
Maire oppercoopman secunde te deser custe Chormandel
en opperhoofd over dit noovdftr district, nata ter steed*
Nagapatnam der 15 October 1702, obiit alhier tot Masuli-
patnam den 2 Augusty Ao 1735 oud 32 iaren 9 maanden en
18 dagen. Zy sullen rusten op hare slaap-steeden etca.
Ies. 57-2.
isa
KISTNA DISTRICT— cont.
Serial Data. Name. Inscription. .
number.
(1) (2) (3) W
DUTCH CEMETERY AT MASULIPATAM— cont.
Hier rust een vrouwe, door de dood
Gescheyden van haar egtgenoot
In bittren rouw, besteld ter arde
Beweend met tranen vloed, na waarde.
Sun
Moon I
Ip o O
\?^°
\^o /
Masonic emblems [?]
41 Under this slab lies buried Mistress Maria Wilhelmina Qambier
wife of the Hon. Mr. Gosewyn Maire, senior merchant, second of
this Coromandel Coast and chief of this Northern district. They
shall rest in their beds. Isaiah 57, 2.
Here lies a wife, through death
Separated from her husband.
In bitter ruth, bestowed to earth,
Bewailed with flood of tears, according to worth. "
Gosewyn Maire buried two little daughters here and a third at
Pulicat. The epitaphs of his children interred here are much
injured by time. He is described upon them, as " twede persoon
van de gandsche custe Cormandol."
1951 20th April Agatha Vosmaer # . Hier legd begraven Agatha Keysbb, huysvrouwe van Adriaen
1744. Vosmaer coopman secunde en hoofd adminigtrateur ten
eomptoire Masulipatnam gebooren tot Delfd den 23 Sept*.
Ao 1718 en overleden den 20 April Ao 1744 in den ouder-
dom van 23 jaren 6 maanden en 28 dagen.
Als mede Catharina Amaranta Vosmaer dogter van de
boven gemelde gebooren den 15 July en overleden den 28
November Anno 1743 oud 4 maanden en 13 dagen.
Unicorn rampant to Lien. Cross with dog overhead.
1952 28th Nov. Catharina Vosmaer.
1743.
COMPOUND OP THE DISTRICT MOONSIFFS COURT, MASULIPATAM.
In the compound is now a golf links and these two tombs (near each other) adjoin one of the holes in the far corner.
The District Moonsiff s Court-house was formerly the oouncil chamber of the Dutch factory, and there is a tradition that the
compound of the factory was used as a burying-ground before the Dutch cemetery at Hollandpalem was opened. It was
the District Judge's Court for years, till a building was bought from the Nawab. It has a fine approach of steps on either
side and a flat roof.
1953 20th Sept. Christian Pit Hier leit begraven Christianas Pit, soon van d'E. Heer
1651. President Laurens Pit, geboren op Palliaeatta ay 10 Mey
Ao 1649 en op Masulipatnam overleden adi 207 ntember
1651.
His little sister Elizabeth died at Pulicat, August 21st, 1654.
vol. n— 20
154
KISTNA DISTRICT— cent.
nrater. Name ' Inscription.
(1) (2) (3) W
COMPOUND OF THE DISTRICT MOONSIf FS COURT, MASULIPATAM — cont.
1054 18th Sept. Maria and Frederick Memento mori. Hier leggen begraven Maria de Bengala en
1679 and Braun. Sr Fredrick Braun ondercoopman, getrouwde luyden,
17th April overleden alhier ten contoire den 18en September 1679 en
1680. 17en Aijril 1680.
Den ongelukkige, den ouden Frederyk,
Rust onder deze steen, en word het stof golijk,
Hy was een klugtig mensoh, en vol van snaakze kuren,
Hier in de wandeling geheeten vader Frits,
De Dood ontzag liem niet, zy nam een pijl zeer spits,
En ging zijn lijf in d' aard, zijn ziel naar boven sturen.
" Here lie buried Maria of Bengal and Frederic Braun, junior
merchant, married folk, who died at the factory here on the 18th
September 1679 and 17th April 1680. Poor old Frodrik rests
under this slab, turned into dust and slime. He was a droll
fellow and full of jokes, and was called for short Father Fritz.
Death spared him not but took a very sharp arrow and sent his
body to the earth, his soul above."
This is a rare instance of an epitaph in the jocose style, with which
may be compared the lines over William Gordon, A.M., who
died at Dacca, September 1 1th, 1817, aged 36.
** If Scotia's music have a charm
Your soul to cheer, your heart to warm,
Pause and do homage to the shade
Of one who in the fiddling trade
Had few compeers, and what is better
He was the essence of good nature."
ARMENIAN TOMBS AT MASULIPATAM.
These are in a coruer of St. John's cemetery, in left hand corner in the shade of Mr. Topping's monument, tall square 20 feet
high. Two of these Tombs commence with the letters I.O.S. not unlike the S.O.S signal. Eleven slabs, five with inscriptions.
Two headed eagle Majlaooa Patkam.
In the "Axdarar," the first Armenian newspaper published at Madras from 1794-6 there are frequent references to the
Armenians of Masulipatam and the periodical visits of the Armenian priests of Madras there. At the commencement of
the "wars with Hyder, the Armenian community of Madras had divided into three parts, one settling at Negapatam and
Seringapatam, another at Masulipatam, where they erected a church about 1782, and the third remaining at Madras. See
Mr. Seth's " History of the Armenians in India."
1955
1956
1957
21st June
1784.
9th Aug.
1785.
8th Mar.
1791.
Jakathoon
ANDER.
Alex-
Catherine Mooeat
MABY MSKH1THAB
This is the tomb of Jakathoon, the wife of Alexander and
daughter of Satoor, who was born at Julfain Ispahan, and
was taken to the Lord at Masulipatam in the year of the
Saviour 1784, 21st Shabath.
This is the tomb of Catherine (Katarineh), the relict of Moorat
(Murad) and daughter of the Rev. Stephen of Garrack,
who died in the Lord in the 23rd year of her age at Masuli-
patam in the year of the Saviour 1785, 10th Lamar.
This is the tomb of Mary the wife of Mekhithar and the
daughter of Aviet Agah of Shakhathoon (?). (Died) at
Masulipatam in the year 1791, on the 11th Nirhan of the
(new era of Azarea) 175.
The new era of Julpha, otherwise known as the " era of Azarea "
began from 1616 a.d. and was in vogue only among the Armenians
in Persia and India. It gradually fell into disuse and was
abandoned in favour of the Christian era during the early part
of the 19th century. The national erav which reckons from 551 a.d.
is still popular with Armenians aU over the world (M. J.8.).
155
KISTNA DISTRICT — cont.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
ARMENIAN TOMBS AT MASULIPATAM- -cant.
1958 2nd Mar. Bagram Sarkies . . The tomb of Baoram Sarkies, 1816.
1816. My life of short duration has passed away
Like a vision and a dream.
I have abandoned my life of sorrows
And am placed in the deep tomb of death.
Bagram Sarkies of the Kalanthar family,
I am returned to my original dust.
The Lord issuing hope and help
In that great day of solemn judgment,
He shall make my soul to hear the voice
Of his blessed calling,
So that T shall be worthy of that salvation
To the great glory of his holy name.
Note in the Church registers —
On the 4th March 1816 Bagaram Sarkies an Armenian merchant
residing in Masulipatam was buried at Masulipatam. On
14th December 1816, Abraham Sarkies, an Armenian merchant,
residing in Masulipatam was buried at Masulipatam.
Bagram Sarkies resided at Masulipatam for 46 years and was
esteemed by all (Asiatic Journal, October 1816.)
Mr. M. J. Seth writes : " Bagram's father Sarkies was the Kalanthar
or Collector of Julpha, Ispahan, but, to his shame be it said, was
a merciless, avaricious and cruel man, and his memory is execrated
by the Julpha Armenians to this day."
1969 18th May Cajum Maul Pattum. (Cajum Maul Pattum, an Armenian Merchant aged 95 years.)
1817.
1960 13th Aug. Gollaston Theoda- (Gollaston Theodarus aged 51.)
1818. bus.
1961 15th Aug. Cornelius Sunbeok. (Cornelius Sunbeok formerly of Ganjam aged 21 years.)
1818.
1962 13th June Christiana Linsbeck. (Christiana relict of late Andrew Linsbeck Corporal in the
1820. H.C. European 1st Battalion.)
1963 27th May Meokertish Paul . . This is the mournful resting place of my brother Meckebttsh
1822. Pooose (Paul) the modest. Oh ! patriot, if thou lovest
Christ, remember him and bemoan (me) Asian. 1822 May
27th.
Asian is the name of the brother of the deceased.
Note in the Church Registers —
29 May 1822 Maokartish Pogoos, an Armenian residing at this
place, aged 60 years. (Joseph Wright).
20 November 1815 Kavor Pogus married to Abraham Mariam in
presence of Galastoen Theodos and Rich. John Colgrave. (Wm
Ray Chaplain).
1964 28th Oct. May Pattum . . (May relict of late Caudgamah Puttum aged 78.)
1824.
vol. n— 20a
156
KISTNA DISTRICT-^*.
Serial
number.
0)
Data.
(2)
Name.
Inscription*
(3) (4)
ARMENIAN TOMBS AT MAS ULIPAT AM— cont.
1965
1966
12th April
1831.
29th Aug.
1831.
Shapery
JoHANNAS
(Shapbby the daughter of Elias Johannas an Armenian Merchant
passing through this place en route to Mesopotamia Persia,
aged 7 months). (Edward Lewis, Chaplain.)
Zeebthah Kakoos . . (Zeebthah Kakoos an Armenian Woman aged 80 years.)
1967 29th Sept. Joseph Peteb
1835.
1968 13th May Hester
[...] COULSTEB
(JosepA Peter, Armenian, a native of Persia aged 56 years.
Signed John Carmichael clerk St. Mary's Chapel.)
Here lies a worthy woman of the Swaneswyk family and
born in Amsteldam who had for her husband Ludolph Van
der Coulster. In love chosen. With whom she lived an
honorable, sweet and in Christ consoling life for six years.
When her frail body was deposited here, and the spiritual
the better part taken up to heaven, It was the 13th of May.
By name and vertue she was also called Hester. She bore
this life for thirty six years and days ten.
(Translation by J. Van de Westelaken, 6-9-1918.) The word vertue
seems superfluous.
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KURNOOL DISTRICT
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
(3)
Inscription.
(4)
KURNOOL.
Fort ie situated on high ground. It is all gone with the exception of only one Bastion which commands a range of 10 miles.
Kurnool town is between the two rivers Hindri and Kistna.
1969 17th Oct. Maurice de Sala- To the memory of Maurice de Salaberry, Lieutenant of
1809.
BERRY.
1970 3rd April Thomas Thompson
1816. Stevenson.
1971 13th June
1824.
1972 12th Oct.
1839.
Charlotte Routier.
Henry Clarence
S carman.
1973 18th Oct.
1839.
Thomas Whitet,
j. moriarty, r.
CROHAN, J. ClJRTIN,
G. Farnell.
1974 21st Deo.
1841.
1975 11th Mar.
1845.
John R.
Timins.
BlDEN
Richard Huklock . .
Grenadiers, in H.M. Royal Regiment of Foot, who died on
this ground on the 17th October 1809, aged 26 years. This
monument is erected by his brother officers to record their
respect and esteem for a departed comrade. In life, the
ornament of their society, in untimely death, the source of
their deep regret.
The monument in the Lancer's Cemetery, Secunderabad, runs as
follows : — 44 Sacred to the memory of Lt. H. Monro and
Lt. D'Saleberry of H.M. 1st or Royal JRegiment. The
former of whom died on the 19th November 1810, M XXI, the
latter on the 1st April 1811, JE XXIII. This monument is
erected by their brother officers as a record of respect and esteem
for departed comrades who were in their life the ornaments of
their society and in their death, the source of their deep regret. **
(Urquhart. Vol. I, page 25).
Son of Colonel Peter de Salaberry of Canada. Urquhart says he
died in camp 44 near Conoul on tho left bank of tho Tumboodra.'*
This and the next tomb are situated in the village of Eti
A valatandrapad, Kurnool town. A Charles Vicomte de Salaberry
died at Pondicherry, October 13th, 1831 (No. 883).
Captain T. T. Stevenson, 3rd Regiment, Light Infantry, aged
35 years.
He joined the army as Cadet in 1798 and became Lieut. January
1, 1800 and Captain March 18, 1809.
Madame Charlotte Routier, aged 51 years, a lady who was
eminently endowed with every virtue.
According to the District Manual she was the European wife of
the Dewan of a former Nawab. Her tomb is in Roja, a part of
Kurnool Municipality north of Newpeta.
Captain H. C. Scarman, H.M., 39th Regiment.
His daughter married Rev. J. W. Mahon, January 29th, 1838. He
was probably the son of Jeremiah Scarman, Surgeon, who died
at Bangalore, April 14th, 1830. There is a monument to Scarman,
White and other officers of the 39th Regiment in the Garrison
Church, Bellary.
To the memory of Lieutenant T. Whitet, Sergeant J. Mori-
arty, and Privates R. Crohan, J. Curtin, G. Farnell of
H.M. 39th Regiment who fell in an action at Zooranpore
on the 18th October, 1839. Erected by the officers, non-
commissioned officers and privates of the Regiment.
(See G.O. No. 92 Ecclesiastical dated 5th December 1914.)
The action is described in a letter from Captain-General Edw. Arm-
strong of 34th M.N. I., to General Fraser dated 18 October 1839
(See Fraser's Life, p. 58).
Tomb in Rasul Bazaar behind the Racquet Court. Zorahpore lies
on the south bank of the river Hindry. It was the scene of
conflict between* the Arab and Rohilla troops of the last Nawab of
Kurnool and the British Regiment sent to take possession of the
country in 1839. The Nawab was prompted by Shah Wiellee Khan
the Rohilla. The name is derived from Zorah, sister of Abdool
Wahab, the first Beejapore Governor of Kurnool.
Lieutenant J. R. B. Timins, the Horse Brigade Artillery.
He joined the artillery in 1827, was Lieutenant in February 2, 1830.
Captain Richard Huklock, 29th M.N.I., deeply regretted by
his brother officers.
He joined the army in 1820 as cadet, was made Lieutenant on
August 7, 1824 and Captain February 15, 1836.
158
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Seri*l Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) W
KURNOOL — cont.
1976 7th Mar. Lindsay D. Daniel. Lindsay D. Daniel, Esq., late Commissioner of Kurnool,.
1856. a g ed 42 years.
1977 19th April James Davidson . . Colonel James Davidson, aged 57 years. This tomb wa&
lg59 # erected by the officers of the 36th Regiment, N.I., as a tribute
of respect to the memory of their late commandant.
He joined the army in 1819 aa cadet and was Lieutenant on 1&
May 1820 and Captain January 11, 1832.
1978 8th May Jessie Phillips . . Jessie, the beloved daughter of the late W. E. Phillips, Esq.,
jggg of 25 Dorset Square, London, and sister of Capt. A. C. Phil-
lips, 36th M.N.I. , at whose residence at this station she died*
aged 28 years.
1979 16th Oct. Frederick William Frederick William Morris, M.C.S., Deputy Director of Reve-
1863. Morris. nue Settlement who died of cholera, aged 29 years.
He married Charlotte Goorgiana, daughter of Robert Parnell,
ofLondon, November 4th, 1858.
1980 1st May Francis Drummond Francis Drummond Gordon, Captain, 26th M.N.I., born in
1864. Gordon. Elgin N.B. in 1832.
1981 Hth Oct. James Douglas Dale. James Douglas Dale, Lieut. -Colonel, Madras Army, aged
1865. 45 y ears -
1982 28th May George Cuthbert George Cuthbert Marsh, Esq., of H.M. 28th Regt., who died
1866. Marsh. of cholera, aged 34 years.
1983 1st July James Flint .. Brevet Major James Flint, 38th M.N.L, Executive Engineer.
jggg who died of cholera.
1984 14th May William Alexander Captain William Alexander Beath, who died of heat apo-
1868. Beath. plexy, aged 35 years.
1985
1986
20th Oct.
1804.
5th Sept.
1878.
1987
23rd Dec.
1912.
Joseph Stonard
David Abbuthnott.
Bernard Henry
Barlow Poole.
CUMBUM FORT.
The officers of the 2nd Battalion 15th N.I. have caused this
tomb to be erected over the grave of Capt. Joseph
Stonard as a small token of their remembrance and regret for
a brother officer who was justly esteemed by them. He died
on the 20th October 1804, aged 30 years.
David Arbuthnott, Lieutenant H.M.'s 67th Regt., son of the
Honourable David Arbuthnott and Eliza his wife ; born,
26th March 1856, died 5th September 1878.
The Hon. David Arbuthnott, c.8.1., was fourth son of the eighth
Viscount Arbuthnott and a member of the Civil Service from
1841 to 1878. He married Miss Eliza Reynolds, September 8th,
1847 and died July 1901.
In dear memory of Bernard Henry Barlow Poole, Indian
Forest Service, December 23rd 1912, aged 34. R.I.P.
1988
2nd Dec.
1864.
NANDYAL MISSION COMPOUND.
Joseph Daniel Joseph Daniel Johnston, Esq., Assistant Engineer in the
Johnston. service of the Madras Irrigation Canal Company. He is
the eldest son of Rev. R. D. Johnston, who died in the 23rd
year of his agq from the effects of wounds, received in an
encounter with a tiger near the village of Pagidial.
159
KURNOOL DISTRICT — conU
*u^b£. Dftte ' Name ' Inscription
(1) (2) (3) (4)
NANDYAL ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY.
1989 1st June Pmup James Pope . . Philip James Pope, I.C.S., who died at Nandyal on the let
1898. June 1898, aged 27 years.
Nephew of Rev. O. U. Pope, d.d., the Tamil scholar.
YETIAVATALA TANDRAPAD CEMETERY, NEAR KURNOOL TOWN.
1990 18th Feb. Elizabeth Brad- As a last tribute of affection by her unhappy surviving partner,
1824. field. this monument is erected to the memory of Elizabeth What-
son, wife of [Lieut. Fisher Bradfield, M.N.I.,] who
departed this life on the 18th day of February 1824, aged
21 years and 6 months.
(Ecclesiastical G.O. No. 02, dated 5th December 1914.)
160
MADURA DISTRICT
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
1991 16th May
1773.
(3)
MADURA TOWN
Christopher Chay-
neau, Samuel
Evans.
Inscription.
1992 17th Jan.
1780.
1993 25th Nov.
1785.
William Evans
John Dyce . .
1994 June 1788. Robert Latham
1995 28th Oot.
1794.
1996 27th Aug.
1801.
William Oates
CEMETERY NEAR THE RAILWAY STATION.
Christopher Theophilus Chayneau and Samuel Evans,.
Esquires, Captains in the Honorable East India Company's
Service, the former aged 38 and the latter 28 years. Life
is uncertain. Death is very sure. Sin is our wound. But
Christ our cure :
Captain Chayneau or Chaigneau commanded a battalion in the-
contingent under Colonel Joseph Smith which the Govern-
ment engaged to furnish to the Nizam in 1767. He was at
one time Town Major of Fort St. George.
Peter Chaigneau was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Bengal Infantry^
He resigned Nov. 9, 1761.
. . William Evans, Sergeant Major in the Hon'ble Company'*
Service in the 35th year of his age.
. . Fraternal piety and affection caused this plain monument to
be erected sacred to the memory of Ensign John Dyce,
born June 1st 1759.
The largest slab in the cemetery. The deceased was perhaps a
relation of the well-known Colonel George Alexander Dy ce-Sombre
who died at Calcutta, April 4th, 1838. Another Captain Andrew
Dyce of the 74th Regiment died June 1804.
Andrew Dyce of the 74th Regiment was a Captain in 1800.
In April 1803 on the coast of Tinnevelly, the infant daughter of
Lieutenant -Colonel Alexander Dyce aged 17 months died.
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander was Ensign 18th November 1776,
Lieutenant 25th November 1780, Captain April 10, 1793, Major
Aug. 18, 1707 and Lieutenant-Colonel August 18, 1799. He was
Lieutenant-Colonel of the 16th N.I. in 1800, (commanding
Madura.) He was Colonel October 25, 1809, Major-General Janu-
ary 1, 1812 and Lieutenant-General May 27, 1825. He died in
Cheltenham Dec. 24, 1835.
. . [Robert Latham, Esq., Paymaster of the Garrison of Madura.]
He died at Madura in the month of June 1788 (Urquhart, Vol. II
p. 56). Writer in 1776 and Factor 1782 and captured by Hyder
Ali in 1782.
. . Lieutenant William Oates.
Euphemia Me Ally
1997
13th May
J. W. Thuresby
Inscription nearly illegible. He was a Cadet in
17th May 1783 and Lieutenant 21st August 1790.
See Nos. 91 and 2675.
Miss Uffy Mo Ally born December 29th, 1799.
1782, Ensign
Mr. R. Macally to be conductor of stores Aug. 17, 1798.*'
Mr. Robert McAlly, Conductor, died at Madura July 1802.
Miss Euphemia M'Cally youngest daughter of the late Robert
M'Calhy was married to Lieut. E. E. Bruce, 18th Regt. at
Triohinopoly on April 14, 1817. Eyre Evans Bruce joined the
army as a Cadet in 1807, became Lieut. 26 May 1814 and Captain
May 1, 1824.
Mr. John William Thuresby, late Paymaster of Madura,
aged 32 years.
Writer in 1789. On January 16th, 1807, his widow married the
Hon. Leveson Grenville Keith Murray, Collector of Madras, son
of the fourth Earl of Dunmore. He died February 6th, 1837,
and she, May 12th, 1827.
Leveson Grenville Keith Murray born 16 Dec. 1770 married firstly
Wemyss daughter of Sir Wm. Dalrymple 3rd bart. of Cousland
who died 1804 (Burke). Augusta Collins, wife of Captain Collins
in the 13th Dragoon Guards died at Bangalore 2nd June 1833,
aged 24. She was the daughter of the Hon'ble G. K. Murray.
Two of Thuresby's daughters were married to civilians : Evelina
(No. 478) to H. Chamier on May 17, 1816, and Matilda the 2nd
daughter to A. D. Campbell, June 12th, 1817 at St. George's
Church, Madras.
161
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8erial Date. Name. Inscription*
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
MADURA TOWN CEMETERY NEAR THE RAILWAY STATION — cont.
1998 23rd May Christopher Thomas Christopher Thomas Anstey, born 29th April 1802, by which
1803. Anstey. early departure he not only escaped the troubles incident
to humanity, but became a certain partaker in the Kingdom
of Heaven.
Son of Thomas Anstey, Third Judge of the Court of Cirouit, who
married Miss Frances Montresor, August 2nd, 1800, daughter of
Captain Henry Montresor, who married Miss Frances Cleverley,
Ootober 2nd, 1770.
1999 20th July Elizabeth Burby . . Elizabeth Burby, wife of Mr. Daniel Burby, Conductor of
1804. Ordnance, aged 27 years.
Mr. Burby died at Trichinopoly, December 16th, 1809, aged 56
years. He was a poet and wrote a large number of verses upon
the two wives whom he buried here. The following lines are
sufficiently remarkable to be quoted : —
* * Success ne'er sat exulting in her eye,
Nor disappointment heaved the troubled sigh,
Prosperity ne'er saddened o'er her brow
While glad in trouble she enjoyed her woe ;
Supreme humility was an awful grace
And her chief charms a bashfulness of face.**
These lines are a translation of a part of the Latin epitaph on Maud
wife of Henry I of England (daughter of Malcolm Connair King
of Scotland) who died May 1, 1118 and is buried in Westminster
Abbey. The translation is by Dart and the original lines are :
O Regina potens . . .
Daniel Burbey (Store Serjeant) married Elizabeth MoEntosh Septem-
ber 7, 1792, at Tanjore,
Daniel Burby Age. 22. Height 5 feet 10 J inches. Ireland, Kildare.
Staymaker and Ship Contractor. He came to Madras September
1780; Re-enlisted, Trichy. 1785 for 5 years; Appointed 21st April.
Penny's Church in Madras, Volume I, page 658, states that
Daniel Burby was a writer in the Collector's offioa^and in Ootober
1824 he purchased a site for the Chapel and gave it to the Tanjore
Missionary. On the 9th May 1811 at Madura Mrs. Harriet Burby
wife of Daniel Burby Junior died, aged 21 years (No. 2004). On
27th March 1815 Mr. W. Burby married Miss A. M. Leighlar.
Anna Burby ,the wife of Daniel Burby, aged 28 years, died on 9th
July 1830 ,and Anna Maria Theresa Burby, wife of Wm. Burby,
died on 25th December 1830, aged 32 years and 2 months in
Madura and were buried at the cemetery in the compound of
the Roman Catholic ohurch, Madura (Portuguese Mission).
2000 12th Aug. William Chambers. Captain William Chambers of the Honorable East India
1804. Company's Service, aged 30 years.
Adjutant of the 6th N.I. Ensign 30th July 1791, Lieutenant 17th
Feb. 1794, Captain, 1st Jan. 1800.
His widow died on 19 Feb. 1817 (Asiatic Journal, Sept. 1817).
2001 8th Sept. Herman Nail . . Captain Herman Nail of the 2nd Battalion, 23rd Regiment
1805. N.I., aged 30 years. Erected by the brother officers of his
corps.
He joined as a Cadet in 1789, was Ensign 25th May 1790, Lieutenant
23rd Jan. 1793 and Captain June 17, 1800.
2002 28th Dec. Anna Delasalle . . Mademoiselle Anna Maria Delasalle, aged 19 years 1 month
1807. and 26 days.
See No. 866.
2003 9th April James Carroll . . James Carroll, Lieutenant in his Majesty's 69th Regiment,
1809. aged 17 years.
A Susannah Caroll was married to Vedmer, George (Private, 52a4
Regt.) Feb. 23, 1797 at Tanjore.
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MADURA TOWN CEMETERY NEAR THE RAILWAY STATION — cont
2004
2005
9th May
1811.
1st Dec.
1811.
2006
2007
2008
2009
9th July
1826.
7th Mar.
1829.
1st April
1835.
4th Jan.
1844.
2010 25th (April
1861.
2011 24th Deo.
1893.
Harriet Burby
Zaohary
Trewman.
John Patterson
James Cannan
. Harriet Burby, the tender wife, the virtuous, mild and evor
beloved consort of Daniel Burby, Junior, aged 21 years.
Turner Lieutenant Z. T. Trewman 1st Batt. XIV Regiment M.N.I.,
aged 26 years. He was a good officer and a sincere friend.
An immense boiler-shaped stone. There are a number of suoh
stones in the Madura and Trichinopoly cemeteries.
Obituary for May 1812. Gentleman's Magazine: At Madura, East
Indies in consequence of a severe hurt received in being thrown
from a gig, Lieut. Z. T. Trewman of the 14th N.I. and the son of
the late Mr. R. Trewman of Exeter. He was a Cadet in 1804 and
Lieut. July 17, 1805.
. Mr. John Patterson, born at the Cape of Good Hope, Head-
writer of the Zillah Court, Madura, aged 60 years, having
served the Honorable Company a period of 30 years.
On 6 Aug. 1821, at Clifton, George Anna 2nd daughter of Capt.
John Paterson H.E. I.C. Service died.
. Ensign James Cannan, 15th N.I., aged 22 years.
Arthur Cole
QUTNTTN
Paterson.
He was a Cadet in 1825, and Ensign Jan. 8, 1826.
. . My friend Arthur Cole E., I.C.S., aged 24 years.
A young writer, perhaps related to the Hon. Arthur Henry Cole,
Resident of Mysore in 1812, who was fourth son of the Earl of
Enniskillen, and M.P. for Enniskillen from 1830 to 1842.
Thomas Quintin Thomas Paterson, son of Archibald Paterson, Esq.,
Kilraery, Argyllshire, Scotland, and late Assistant Surgeon,
Madras Establishment, who was cut off by cholera at Madura
in the 23rd year of his age. This monument is erected by
his affectionate brother Colin Paterson, M. D., Residency
Surgeon, Travancore.
Colin Paterson died himself at Kamptee 24 Feby. 1863.
A. F. Tytler] Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lieutenant H.M., 17th N.I.,
who died near Tiroomangalam, aged 30 years.
F. M. Bartholomew. Francis Medley, third son of the Rev. C. C. Bartholomew,
Corn wood Devon, for 24 years Assistant Master at Clifton
College who while on a visit to India died of cholera at Madura
on the 24th December 1893, aged 49 years.
ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH, MADURA TOWN.
2012 6th Aug. Rous Peter . . . . Rous Peter, Principal Collector of Madura, aged 42 years.
1828.
The inscription is now illegible. Sir. Rous Peter served twenty .one
years in the Madura district, where he lived in great style and
was a mighty hunter of elephants. He went by the name of
Peter Pandya. In 1828 he was charged with defalcations and
when a Commissioner came down to enquire, committed suicide.
His grave was originally outside, but is now inside the church,
which was extended round it. Cf. p. 148 in Burton's Reminiscen-
ces of Sport in India.
28th Aug. George Frederick George Frederick Fischer, Zemindar of Salem, aged 62
1867. Fischer. years.
The last of the great *' adventurers " or non-official English in
Madras. He may have been a son of George Friderich Fischer,
a ship's Captain, baiptised in Zion Church May 7, 1773 and a
grandson of J. J. Fisoher. (See No*. 2440 and 1261.)
A George Fischer, Cornet, resigned the service 31 Oct. 1797, Chris-
topher Fischer was taken from the Danish service into the Bengal
Army; Capt. 1757, Lieutenant Colonel 1779, invalided and died
Oet. 1781 in Calcutta.
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Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
<M (2) (3) (4)
MONUMENT IN MADURA TOWN.
2014 1847 John Blaokbtjrnh . . To John Blackburne, Esq., Principal Collector of Madura
from 1834 to 1847. By a grateful people.
He was the first to enlarge and beautify the streets of the town.
He was probably a relation of General Blackburne for so many
years Resident at Tanjore, who married Miss M. A. Llewellyn,
September 19th, 1806. John Blackburne died in England, June
17th, 1850. There is an excellent story of a wonderful escape
of Blackburne from being mauled by an Elephant at Pooliary,
ton miles from Courtallam in Hawkeye's Book on Game (1876,
Ooty, S. J. Press). * * He was the first man who took upon himself
to abolish the custom when payment of kist was made in kind,
that the ryot might reap his field when the grain was ripe. Before
that no cultivator could store his grain before the Tahsildar gave
permission to reap."
CEMETERY AT DINDIGUL NEAR THE TALUK CUTCHERRY.
2015 10th Nor.
1797.
2016 19th April
1801.
2017
9th May
1802.
2018 May 1804..
2019 27th Oct.
1808.
2020 14th May
1815.
2021
9th Sept.
1828.
2022
2023
2024
22nd Feb.
1834.
18th Dec.
1834.
20th Oct.
1841.
John Beatson
John Bbatson, aged 73 years.
John Duff Gordon. . (Captain John Duff Gordon 13th Native Infantry.)
Harriot Thomas
Hurdis.
John Johnson
David Young
Thomas Wilson
John Lambe
William Buckley
William Boot
Robert Davidson
He joined the army in 1790, was Lieutenant September 19, 1793 and
Captain June 17, 1800.
Miss Harriot Thomas Hurdis, aged 19 after an illness of only
5 days.
Sister of Mr. T. B. Hurdis, who was at the time Collector of Madura
and the Dependent Polygars. He married Miss Catherine
Thomas, August 18th, 1801, and died November 16th, 1808
(No. 299).
[John Johnson Conductor of Stores (or Johnston) aged 63[)
David Young, Serj-Maj., obiit 27 die Octobris anno domini
1808, astatis suae 58.
Sacred to the memory of Mr. Thomas Wilson, Adjutant of
the 4th Nat. Vet. Battn., who died at this place, May 14th
1815, aged 35 years and 4 months. This tribute of respeot
erected by a friend will in time decay, but the many virtue*
of the deceased will, it is devoutedly hoped, procure for his
soul a happy immortality.
Major John Lambb, H.C.S., aged 41 years. A tribute of the
affection and a monument of the grief of his afflicted widow.
His widow married at St. Helena, September 25th, 1829, Major
Baron de Kutzleben (No. 1671).
He joined the army as Cadet in 1800, was Lieutenant March 22,
1802, Captain April 2,1816, Major July 2,1825, invalided June
5, 1827 in India. At tho time of his death he was Major in 4th
N. V. B. Commanding Dindigul.
William Buckley, Ensign in the 18th Regiment N.I., aged 26
years.
He was a Cadet in 1825 and was Ensign Jan. 8, 1826.
William Boot, Key Sergeant, aged 62 years.
He married Margaret Simmons Aug. 6, 1 796 (name spelt Boote).
Robert Davidson of the Madras Civil Service, late Sub.
Collector of the Zillah of Madura, who departed this life at
Dindigul, in the 33rd year of his age.
Writer, 1827. Another Robert Davidson, C.8,1. (1852-84), was
Chief Secretary to Government and subsequently member of the
Board of Revenue.
Thomas Hendrick Davidson, C.S., died May 11, 1852 at Yercaud
on the Shervaroy Hills and his wife, Emily Sarah at Salem Jan 19
1852.
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RAMNAD.*
The Fort of Ramnad was taken in 1772 and garrisoned by a detachment of the Nawab's troops under Colonel Martins. They
wore withdrawn in 1792 and Colonel Martinz was left to command the local corps of armed police called the Revenue Battalion.
Lieutenant and Adjutant Clarke was killed in the Fort of Ramnad, of which he was the Adjutant, by the Poligar of Panjalam
Coorchy : whom Mr. Jackson the Resident ordered somewhat hastily to sieze 44 The rebellious black princes to the Southward."
2025 8th Jan. William C. Wheat- In sure and certain hope of a happy resurrection to eternal life
1810. ley* through our Lord Jesus Christ, here reposeth the remains of
William C. Wheatley, who departed this life the 8th January
1810, aged 36 years and 6 months, who with the fewest
failings possessed the noblest virtues of the mind. He was a
sincere Christian, a true friend, a tender parent, the most
indulgent and affectionate of husbands. In testimony of
her irreparable loss, this monument is erected as a small
tribute to his much esteemed memory and many amiable
qualities by his affectionate and disconsolate widow Elizabeth
Wheatley.
" Master of Schwartz's English School for Natives 1785, also as a
mission agent of Schwartz, Mr. Wheatley after the death of the
missionary Jaenicke transacted the secular concerns of the Tinne-
velly mission as the gratuitous agent of the Revs. Gericke and
Kohlhoff " (W. Taylor's Memoir of the first centenary of the
Earliest Protestant Mission at Madras, p. XVIII Appendix,
footnote).
2026 7th Oct. Manuel Martinz . . Colonel Manuel Martinz, late Commandant of this Garrison
1810. and District. Born in March 1740, died on the 7th October
1810, aged 70 years and 7 months, after an honorable service
of 50 years.
Colonel Welsh, author of an excellent book entitled Military Reminis-
cences, has left the following description of this personage : ' * The
Ramnad fort is indeed only interesting to Indians as having
been, for upwards of 30 years, the residence of Colonel Martins
of the Nabob's service, who commanded the place, as well as a
regularly disciplined provincial battalion, bearing his own name.
Of all the hospitable men in the most hospitable country in the
world, this extraordinary old gentleman stood foremost. He
had a large well- furnished house, and received with a hearty
welcome as his guests all who chose to come to it. He had a
cellar or godown, as it is there styled, full of the choicest liquors,
and amongst the rest, pipes of Madeira of various ages, slung
by ropes from the roof, to which he decreed an '* Europe voyage "
as he called it, every time the door was opened, by making a
servant swing them about for some minutes. His wine was
never fined, and seldom bottled, but drawn for immediate use.
He was a man of few words, and directed his servants by snapping
his Angers, or by whistling. A native of Savoy, or Portugal,
of a diminutive form, being under the middle size, with a visage
more resembling a baboon than the human species, and manners
the most uncouth and outre, Colonel Martinz was still the father
of his corps, and the kind friend of all his little community ;
and to sum up his character in a few words, was generally known,
much beloved, and wanted only the outward forms of religion
to be universally respected and esteemed " (see No. 1838).
Lord Valentia was his guest. Jaenicke in 1791 visited him.
Gericke refers to him as the good Colonel. Taylor defends him
from Welsh's animadversions.
2027 9th Oct. Joseph Breton Major J. B. Seward, 24th Regiment N.L, who departed this
1810. Seward. life 9th October 1810, aged 34 years. He rests in the hope
of a joyful resurrection.
He joined the army in 1794 as a Cadet, was Lieut. June 1, 1796,
Captain Aug. 13, 1801 and Major in 1809.
He married, August 1804, Miss Sarah Isaaeke, who remarried,
February 2lst, 1814, Capt. W. O. Pearse, of the artillery (sea
No. 203). 44 She died on the sea coast near Ramnad.*'
• Now in a separate district called Ramnad district.
105
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number.
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Date. Name. Inscription.
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RAMNAD — cont.
2028 &th Oct. Euobhib Cherry . . Here lie the mortal remains of Eugenie, wife of George F.
jg 13 * Cherry, Esquire, who left this world for a better on the
9th October 1813. Possessed of every amiable quality which
could call forth love and esteem and eminently gifted with
those qualifications which claim respect, she was an affec-
tionate wife, a faithful friend, and truly good woman. This
tribute of respect to her memory is erected by a mournful
husband.
Mr. Cherry died at Combaconam, February 10th, 1827. He wm
eldest eon of John Hector Cherry, acting Governor of Bombay
in 1802. Mr. Cherry and 44 Mrs. Bridget Josephine Eugenie
Irwin were united in holy matrimony according to the rubric of
the Church of England this 2nd day of June 1812 at half past
ten o' clock A.M. by R. Andrews, Assistant Magistrate. Wit-
nesses J. S. Sullivan (C.S.), John G. Turnbull (C.S.), Lieutenant
Colonel Shakespear, U. O. Shakespoar." She was the widow of
William Irwin, a Madras civilian, who died childless, September
2nd, 1810, oft Malacca. Her previous marriage took place at
Karikal, April 20th, 1802, when she is described as Mile Eugenie du
Perron, daughter of the late Colonel du Perron of the Regiment of
Pondicherry (No. 837). Her first husband's father was the
well-known Eyles Irwin (1751 — 1817), who married Honor Brooke
and who died at Clifton 12th Aug. 1817 in the 70th year of his
age. He was dismissed from the service in consequence of the
part he played in denouncing the deposition of Governor Pigot,
but returned to Madras with Lord Macartney, whom he afterwards
accompanied on the embassy to China. He was one of the first
to take the overland route. He wrote two volumes of travels and
innumerable books of poetry of the age, and was a friend of Hayley.
His parents were James Irwin, H.E.I.C.S., of Hazeleigh, and
Sarah Beale, daughter of Mary Beale 44 from St. Helena," bap-
tized at Calcutta, February 28th, 1728, and buried at St. Helena,
September 8th, 1792. Sarah Beale married three times: (1)
Captain Henry Palmer, of the family of Lord Selborne, a private
merchant, who died in 1743 ; (2) James Irwin, who died June
20th, 1752, by whom she became the mother of three children,
James, Sarah Gambier and Eyles ; [In 1767, Dec. 2, at Calcutta,
Thomas Pearson (See Bengal Obituary 1871) married Sarah
Irwin. In 1777, April 22 at Calcutta, Mr. James Irwin, Senior
Merchant in the H.C.'S Service married Selina Brooke (the
Mrs. I. C. of Mrs. Fay's Letters who suffered shipwreck of the
Dartmouth.] and (3) Rev. Robert Mapletoft, Chaplain of Fort
William, 1750-77, one of the most interesting persons in the
ecclesiastical history of Bengal. Anna Maria the eldest daughter
of Rev. Robert Mapletoft and Sarah, widow of James Irwin
and of Captain Palmer, married at Calcutta Aug. 25, 1770, Mr.
William Wynne Secretary. Captain Robert Patton, A.D.C.
to Warren Hastings, married Cons tan tia Adriana Sally
Mapletoft July 31, 1772. Mapletoft's portrait hangs in
the vestry room of St. John's Church, Calcutta. He went through
the siege by Surajah-ud-Doulah, only to die at Fulta of his
sufferings. He and his wife are honourably mentioned by Hol-
well. Mr. Hyde in his 44 Parish of Bengal " informs ua that
Mrs. Mapletoft " upheld the cause of the Pretender to her latest
days and used, so tradition says, to fling a pinch of snuff over her
shoulder in contempt of the Hanoverians, when King George
was prayed for in Church". George F. Cherry married secondly
Charlotte Hughes, who survived him and afterwards married
Richard Pohle. Their son was John William Cherry.
2029 26th April Hbitoy MnUER . . Lieut, and Adjutant Henry Miller of the 4th N.V. Bn.,
1817 wn0 the Honorable Company 28 years. He was a
sincere Christian and an affectionate husband, whom it
pleased God to call away at the age of 48 on the 25th April in
the year of our Lord 1817. This tribute of affection is
erected by his disconsolate and affectionate wife Ann Miller.
Henry Miller married Ann Akin (a native) November 8th, 1794.
166
MADURA DISTRICT-^ont.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
RAMNAD — cont.
2030 9th Mar. Francis Whytb Francis Whytb Ellis, Esquire, of the Madras Civil Servioe >
1819. ElUs. whose valuable life was suddenly terminated by a fatal
accident at this place, on the 9th March 1819 in the 41st
year of his age. Uniting activity of mind with versatility
of genius, he displayed the same ardour and happy sufficiency
on whatever his varied talents were employed. Conversant
with the Hindu Languages and Literature of the Peninsula,
he was loved and esteemed by the natives of India with whom
' he associated intimately, and his kind and playful disposition
endeared him to his own countrymen among whom he was
distinguished no less by his capacity as a public servant than
by a mind fraught with intelligence and information, and
alive to every object of interest or utility. The College of
Fort St. George which owes its existence to him is a lasting
memorial of his reputation as an oriental scholar, and this
stone has been erected as a tribute of the affectionate regard
of his European and Native friends. John Law, Sculptor ,
Madras, 1827. (The monument is of marble.)
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On the other side of this monument is the inscription in Tamil, a
translation of which follows : 44 Sacred to the memory of him
called Ellis who entered into his rest, to the deep Borrow of the
Goddess of Earth, on the 9th March 1819 A.D. (1741 of the
Salivahana Era) at Muhavai, otherwise called Ramnad, during
one of his tours from Madras to the districts of the South. He
was deeply learned in the English language, that language which
spreads like a creeper penetrating into every nook and corner of
the world. In his profound learning, he shone like a sun, wher-
ever he went, dispelling the darkness of ignorance. He was well
versed not only in the 3 kinds of Tamil, but also in Sanskrit.
His Tamil was as sweet as fresh ambrosia ; he translated into
English all that bore upon litigation and morals in the Code of
Manu. He wrote a wonderful version in English on the first
part of the sacred 44 Kural " of Tiruvalluvar which treats of virtue.
Again, he translated into English inscriptions on stones and
copper plates reciting the mutual duties of Kings and of their
subjects. He caused 27 wells and tanks to be dug that people
might be benefited."
167
Serial
number.
(1)
(S)
MADURA DISTRICT — eoni.
Name.
Inscription.
2031 15th Sept.
1830.
2032 14th Nov.
1830.
Mungo Campbell
Esther Campbell
2033 14th July
1845.
2034 26th July
1846.
Roger Jackson
Edwabd Pultbney
Stanley Hoopee.
RAMNAD — cont.
He arrived in India in 1796 and was all his life a great oriental
scholar. Sir Walter Elliott in presenting to the Library of the
India Office a valuable Tamil manuscript, the Tembavani of
Beschi, obtained by Mr. Ellis gives the following account of him
in the pages of the " Athenaeum " : " For upwards of twenty yean
he devoted all his spare time to the cultivation of Sanscrit and the
various dialects peculiar to Southern India. Having determined
to publish nothing until he had exhausted every available source
of information, he had amassed a vast amount of material, the
elaboration of which would have shed a flood of light on the still
obsoure history of that region, and likewise anticipated much of
the knowledge of its philology and literature which recent resear-
ches have brought to light. When his task was almost completed,
he undertook a journey to Madura, the Athens of the South, for
the elucidation of some minor details and resided for some time
with Mr. Rous Peter, the Collector of the district. During a
short excursion to Ramnad, in the same province, he accidentally
swallowed some poison and died on March 10th, 1819. No one
was at hand who understood or cared for his pursuits. Hig
ordinary tangible property was sold by auction at Madura and
Madras under instructions from the Administrator-General,
but all his papers were lost or destroyed. " Prinsep, Charles C,
also gives 10th March 1819 as the date of his death in his* Record
of Services of Madras Civilians.'
A writer in the Asiatic Journal of Oct. 1819, says : " We believe we
may say without fear of being accused, either of partiality or
exaggeration, that no European Gentleman was ever so well
acquainted with the science of Hindu Law and with the Theology,
habits, customs and general literature of the Hindus. Many of
our readers remember with pleasure the learned and interesting
lectures delivered by him lately to the Literary Society at Madras ;
he was engaged in active researches to enable him further to
elucidate the subjects which those lectures embraced."
An extract from his readings on Hindu Law is given in the same
journal of July 1819.
. Captain and Brevet Major Mungo Campbell, 4th N.V.Bn., who
served the Honorable Company 33 years. He was a sincere
Christian and an affectionate husband, whom it pleased God
to call away at the age of 53 J on the l§th September 1830.
This tribute of affection is erected by his disconsolate and
affectionate widow Esther Campbell.
Widow Esther Campbell whom it pleased God to call away
at the age of 35 on the 14th November 1830. She was a
sincere Christian, a dutiful daughter, an affectionate wife
and a tender parent. This tribute of affection is erected by
his disconsolate mother Anne Miller.
This is a detached marble slab lying by itself in the churchyard.
She was the widow of Matthew Christy, Zilla Surgeon of Cuddapah
and eldest daughter of Lieutenant Miller, commanding the native
invalids at Ramnad (see No. 1612).
Asst. Surgeon Samuel Christie, 14th N.I., died in camp at Chow-
gaum on Nov. 12, 1818.
. Lieutenant Roger Jackson, 31st Light Infantry, aged 31 years.
This monument is erected by his brother officers as a token
of affectionate regret.
Edward Ptjlteney Stanley Hooper, Esquire, Madras Civil
Service, eldest son of George Stanley Hooper, Esquire, of the
same service, aged 21 years, 5 months and 6 days. Born at
Palamcottah 19th February 1825.
G.S. Hooper, C.S., 1817-60, married Miss C. Burnside, Marck 13th,
1823, and died May 21st, 1867. Hooper was a great naturalis t .
Cf. Mitford't Journey from England to Ceylon 40 years age
168
MADURA DISTRICT — cont.
Bail!
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
(3)
2036 10th July Franklyn Guy
1881. Clerk.
2036 2nd Nov. Arthur Hbbbr
1890. Thomas.
Inscription.
RAMNAD — cont.
Franklyn Guy Clerk, Assistant Superintendent of Madras
Police, 5th son of Robert and Agnes Clerk of Hobart, Tas-
mania, who died of typhoid fever at Ramnad, aged 26 years.
Son of Robert Clerk, Serjeant-at-Arms to the House of Assembly,
Tasmania. His brother George Percy Clerk was Head of the
Madras Survey department and died August 20th, 1897.
A Robert Clerk of the Civil Service was married on 8 Feb. 1817 to
H. F. Williams only daughter of R. Williams (Asiatic Journal,
Sept. 1817). He joined as writer in 1816, died 3 April 1873 in
England (Princep*s List of Civil Servants.)
Arthur Heber Thomas, b.a., Exeter College, Oxford and of
Warmsworth, Yorks. Born August 14, 1862. The last four
years of his life were devoted to the Mission at Ramnad.
A well-known athlete in his day. There is a memorial chapel named
after him at Ramnad. 3rd son of Charles Edward, of Warms-
worth, Yorks, cler. Exeter 18th Oct. 1882 aged 20. A.B. 1887,
A book has been published about Thomas and the Ramnad
Mission.
TIRUPPARANKUNDRAM.
(Rock resembles an elephant kneeling).
2037 3rd Aug. Theodore Adrian Capt. T. J. J. A. Lonoworth, 9th N.I., aged 35 years.
1837. John James
Lonoworth.
He died in camp at Skanda Malai, otherwise known as Secunder
Mally, 4 miles south-west of Madura. He joined the army as
a Cadet in 1819, was Lieutenant April 7, 1820 and Captain
October 25, 1833.
KODAIKANAL.
2038 20th Sept. Pierce William Pierce William Moore of the Madras Civil Service, fifth son
1886. Moore. of John Lewis Moore, Trinity College, Dublin, aged 34 years.
Brother of Mr. Lewis Moore, C.S. (d. 1907) who has three sons in
• the Madras Civil Service.
PAMBAN ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.*
2039 21st Nov. E. H. Daviot . . Edward Hippolyte Daviot, born 1st August 1821. Je desire
1876. que mes cendres reposent on ce lieu.
Port Officer. There are the ruins of a fort at Pamban said to have-
been erected by the Dutch about 1653.
PAMBAN S.P.G. MISSION COMPOUND.*
2040 9th July W. W. Whelpdale . . Lieutenant William Walter Whelpdale, 19th Regiment
1342. N.I., aged 27 years. Erected as a token of sincere regret by
his brother officers.
He joined the army as a Cadet in 1832 and was Lieut. Aug. 28, 1835.
PAMBAN*
(Inscription on the obelisk on the Sea Shore.)
2041 9th Jan. Charles Binny Gib. In memory of Charles Binny Gib, Esq., Lieutenant, 3rd Light
1845. Infantry who was drowned at Palamcottah on the 9th of
January 1845, aged 24 years erected by Lieutenant Colin.
Gib [....] in affection and regret.
Pamban 12th August 1846.
* Now in a separate district called Kamnad district.
169
MADURA DISTRICT — cont.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
(3)
2042 29th July W. Syme
1864.
Inscription.
(4)
PAMBAN— cont.
Sacred to the moAiory of Major William Syme of the Madras
Staff Corps who died on the 29th July 1864, aged 45 years
(quotation from Luke 23. 13).
He arrived in India 1st September 1843, was Lieutenant 28th De-
cember 1852, Captain 10th June 1858 and Major 10th June 1863«
SIVAGANGA*
2043 25th July Elizabeth Halmeyer. Heare laid the body of Ms. Elizabeth Halmbybr. Borne
1779. in the year of our Lord 1759 the First June. Died 1779 the
25th July Hoar. Age 20 year 1 month 25 days.
2044 19th Nov. Harriet Turnbull. Here lieth the Body of Harriet Turnbull who departed this
1811. life on the 19th November 1811 A.D. aged 2 years and 11
months. This stone is inscribed to her memory by her affec-
tionate parents. Thomas-Harriet Turnbull.
* Now in a separate distriot called Ramnad district.
vol. II— 22
170
MALABAR DISTRICT.
SerUl
number.
(I)
Date.
Name.
(3)
Inscription*
OLD CEMETERY, CALICUT.
2045 14th April
1717.
RlCHARD HABBISOK • ,
2046 22nd May
1793.
2047 8th Mar.
1794.
2048 9th Mar.
1795.
2049 19th May
1806.
John Stevens Agnew.
William Burchell.
Alexander Porter.
Alexander Lockhart
Mackonochib.
20 ro 2nd Dec.
1816.
George Edward
Reade.
2051
25th April
1818.
John H. Pearson • .
Sub hoc marmore reponuntur relliquiae Rioardi Harrison
armigeri qui natus circiter viginti annos e vita exoessit XIV
Aprilis MDCCXVII. Here lyeth the body of Richard Harri-
son, Esq., who departed this life the 14th of April 1717, aged
about 20 years.
Presumably son of Edward Harrison, Governor of Fort St. George,
from 1711 to 1717, whose only daughter Ethelreda married Charles,
third Viscount Townshend, and became the mother of George,
the first Marquis, and of Charles Townshend, Chancellor of the
Exchequer in the administration of Lord Chatham. A Richard
Harrison, namesake of the deceased, came out June 21st, 1701,
and was appointed Purser to Masulipatam. In 1705 he was at
Fort St. David, and in 1713 asked leave to resign. In 1714
he was dismissed, and in that yoar his name appears in the list
of seafaring men " not constant inhabitants " who were allowed
to make Fort St. George their headquarters.
John Stevens, son of John Aonew and Elizabeth his wife,
aged 10 months and 29 days.
Captain William Burchell, Commandant of the Second
Battalion of the Native Infantry, aged 36 years.
He was made Captain in June 21, 1784.
Alexander Porter, late conductor of provisions in the Honor-
able Company's service.
Alexander Lockhart Mackonoohie, Esq., late a Surgeon on
the Bombay Establishment, aetat. 34 years.
Member of the Commission of Survey and a man of versatile talents,
" attic taste and seasonable repartee." Urquhart devotes three
pages to his memory, beginning, " His excursive genius pre-
ferred those walks of science foundod on the substantial basis of
experiment and induction to an ars conjee turalia " and concluding
" But stern fate imposed its veto." This gentleman had long time
relinquished the path of medical promotion. He was a member
of a Commission of Survey in the Forests of Malabar and
belonged to the Medical establishment of Bombay. On 4th July
1709 at Calicut Quentin Crawford Esq., was married to Miss
Mackonoohie of Bey pore.
George Edward Rbade of the Bombay Civil Service, aged 18
years. Erected by two of his friends.
Brother of Charles Reade the novelist. His father John Reade
of Ipsden married Anna Maria, eldest daughter of Major John
Scott (afterwards Waring), M.P., for Stockbridge, and Warren
Hastings' champion in Parliament. Two other sons John
Thurlow Reade and Edward Anderton Reade were in the Bengal
Civil Service. J. T. Reade, 1816-27, died at Saharunpore,
November 25th, 1827. E. A. Reade, 1826-60, was senior
member of the Board of Revenue at Agra in the mutiny year
and was one of the council of three who carried on the adminis-
tration when the Lieutenant-Governor's (John Russell Colvin's)
health broke down. He died April 12th, 1886. On 8th April 1846,
Charles Frederick Malcolm, son of Charles and Harrietts Reade
born at Wynber, Cape of Good Hope on 7th Sept. 1845, died.
Another Reade, Charles William, M.C.S., 1835-71, was Collector
of South Arcot and died in England, April 27th, 1884. Charles
William Reade married a daughter of A. Lewin when their united
ages did not amount to 36.
John H. Pearson, Bombay Civil Service, who, bitten by a
snake on the evening of the 25th April, died before 12 o'clock
that night.
Colonel Welsh gives a long account of his death in his Military
Reminiscences, volume I, page 204. Mr. Pearson was Zillah
Judge at the time.
171
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number*
a)
(2)
2052 25th May Eliza Babinqton
1822.
MALABAR DISTRICT — cont.
Name. Inscription.
(3) W
OLD CEMETERY, CALICUT — cont.
Eliza, wife of John Babinqton, Madras Civil Service, aged 33
years.
She was a Miss Roebuck, married December 1st, 1808.
2053 15th July Robert Ley
1828.
Robert Ley, aged 82 years.
He was Master Attendant and married a Miss Sarah Finney, January
1806. On 23rd March 1805 Thomas Ley married Mrs. Elisabeth
Phillips,
2054 14th Nov. Samuel Adolphus Major S. A. Rehe, late of the 26th N.I., aged about 48 years.
1837. Rehe.
He joined the army as a Cadet in 1807, was Lieutenant May 11, 1813.
Captain June 26, 1824 and Major Jan. 1, 1836.
2055 22nd April Harry Gouoh
1846.
Lieut. Harry Gough of H.M., 25th Regiment, the King's Own
Borderers, aged 27 years.
2056 28th Aug. Robert Anderson Ensign Robert Anderson Wyse, who was killed in action at
1849 Wyse. Mun jerry when leading a detachment of the 43rd Regiment
N.I.
2057 15th April John Eliot Chester. John Eliot Chester, of the Madras Civil Service, aged 23 years.
1850.
Son of Rev. William Chester who died Chaplain of Vizagapatam ,
March 13th, 1836, aged 49. Charlotte, the eldest daughter,
married Francis Copleston, C.S. (the well-known Judge of Rajah-
mundry) November 30th, 1833.
Another daughter Louisa (3rd daughter) married at Waltair Dec.
21, 1835, the Rev. W. T. Blenkinsop, A. B. when he was chaplain
at St. Thomas Mount (1827-1844). And on June 30, 1836, at the
Vepery Church by the Rev. W. T. Blenkinsop, W. H. Wapshare,
Lieut. 10th N.I. married Emma, another daughter.
2058 11th Sept. Henry Valentine Henry Valentine Conolly, many years Collector and Magis-
1855. Conolly. trate of Malabar and Provisional Member of Council. His
European and Native friends in Malabar, loving and admiring
his public and private virtues, have united to raise this slight
memorial of his eminent worth and Christian character.
ConoUy married firstly a Miss Jane Mooreom, September 24th,
1830. She died in 1835 and he married secondly, February 22nd,
1841, Anne, only daughter of C. Birch, of Dublin. He was mur-
dered at 9 p.m. by Moplahs, who came from behind into the
verandah where he was seated, with his wife reading their newly-
arrived mail letters. His death led to a sanguinary struggle,
in which the native troops woro dofeated and English soldiers
had to take the field to crush the insurrection. H. V. Conolly
was the brother of Arthur Conolly who perished at Bokhara.
Their father Valentine Conolly was a Madras Surgeon. An adver-
tisement of the auction of his bungalow on Choultry Plain by
Robert Henderson appears in the Madras 44 Courier " for August
14th, 1799.
On Feb. 17, 1830, Col. Augustus Andrews, C. B. of the H.E.I.C.
Service married a daughter of the late Charles Conolly Esq., of
Midford Castle, Somerset and of Laura at Bath.
vol. n— 22a
172
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nuniber.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
TELLICHERRY.
Nestling amongst the cocoanut palms that fringe the west coast between Calicut and Cannanoro, lies the picturesque little seaport
of Tellicherry. One seldom hears or reads of it now-a-days, but in other times it was a place of importance, for it was here,
in 1683, that the East India Company founded their first regular settlement on the Malabar Coast, and opened a factory. The
building is still standing and is now used as a salt god own.
After the custom of those days a fort was built on the rising ground that runs down to the shore. The garrison were several times
in desperate straits, especially when besieged by Haider Ali's lieutenant, Sirdar Khan, for eighteen months in 1780-82, but
fortune seems to have favoured them as tho fort was never taken. It was during this time, when coming to the assistance
of tho garrison, that H.M.S. " Superb " was wrecked on the rocks in the roadstead, which form a natural breakwater, but
are very dangerous to shipping.
The fort, built of laterite, is still in a fair state of preservation. It is entered from the land side by two flights of steps leading to a
quaint archway. On either side there stands a sentry in bas relief who, in his old world uniform, still silently challenges the
wanderer. A dwarf lighthouse now crowns the northern bastion and flashes out a warning, or a welcome, to the mariner
and fisherman.
Just below, on a small promontory, are the English and Roman Catholic churches, each surrounded by its neatly kept "God's
Acre." They recall to one's memory the lines in Jean Ingelow's poem —
" A little country churchyard
On the edge of the cliff by the sea."
Truly an ideal '* Garden of Sleep," with its shady casuarinas sighing softly overhead, and the sea singing its lullaby on the
shore below. Here are the last resting places of many worthies who served their country by sea and land. Among the
memorials is a stone " Sacred to the memory of the Hevd. J. J. Martyns, a Wesleyan missionary, formerly a Friar of the
Order of St. Francis, who departed this life at Tellichorry on 11th September, 1830, aged 36 years." One pauses for a
moment to wonder what caused such a radical change of faith.
The town was once surrounded by a wall which was built, according to Hamilton, who was an outsider and no friend of the
factors, 44 to keep out enemies of the chief's making," but it has now disappeared. When the setting sun is weaving
long streamers of amber light athwart the amethyst and red sky, bathing the whole scene in a glow of molten gold, it is
difficult to imagine a fairer coast line than the small beach at Tellicherry with its yellow sands, rocks of dull red laterite and
background of palms and low wooded hills. It is deserted save by a few solitary fishermen who are landing from a small
dugout after a day's toil, and the men and the boat are sharply silhouetted against a sea of red and gold. Then as the light
fades and shadows deepen,the sand crabs, with their stilted eyes, come from their burrows and scamper about in search of an
evening meal. The boll of the small church on the promontory above sounds the Angelus and then all is still except the
ceaseless song of the sea. (J. S. Rush-in Times of India, March 1911),
2059 17th April Henry Johnson Henry Johnson died April 17th, 1759, aged 23 years.
1759.
A Mr. John Johnson, conjecturably his father, was a signatory to
articles of commercial trading drawn up between the Tellicherry
and Mahe' factories on the April 28th, 1728.
Gasper M. Gleetz, Captain of Infantry, born at Quedlinburg
the 16th December 1730 and died at Tellicherry.
See No. 2687.
George Brown, late a Major in his Britannic Majesty's 19th
Regiment, Light Dragoons, aged 32 years. This stone is
placed near his remains by a brother.
See Madras Courier of April 12, 1792: - -" At Tellicherry on 28th
ult. Major G. Brown of H. M. 19th Dragoons."
2062 4th July David Phillips . . (Lieutenant David Phillips of the Bombay establishment.)
1798.
2063 24th Mar. Mary Disney . . Mary, aged 26, wife of Lieut.-Colonel Arthur Disney in
1800. the Honorable United East India Company's Service, com-
manding the garrison at Nugger in the province of Bednore,
died at Kundapore on the 24th March 1800.
Disney commanded the batteries in the attack on Tippoo's earth*
works at Seringapatam, April 1799. In November 1799 ho was
appointed by Colonel Wellesley to the charge of Bednore. Bed.
nore had been captured in 1763 from its Ranee by Hyder. Colonel
Wilks in his " Sketches of the South of India " says that a few
days after its surrender, some person, speaking of its population,
says in Hyder's hearing that it had been intended by the former
dynasty to augment the houses to 90,000, the distinctive number
which constitutes a town or nugger. '* We will not mar the
project,'* said the Sultan, " and it shall be called Hyder Nugger,"
an abbreviation which was generally shortened into Nugger.
Kundapore, the present station of the Sub-Collector of South
* Canara, is two stages from Bednore.
A son was born at Cottai Perumbo in the Malabar Province, March
19, 1798 ; a daughter waa born at Tellicherry, March 7, 1799.
2060 18th April Gasper M. Gleetz . .
1768.
2061 27th Mar. George Brown
1792.
173
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
MALABAR DISTRICT — cont.
Name. Inscription*
(3)
TELLICHEKRY — cont.
2064
21st Nov.
1801.
Frances Smith
2065
9th April
1813.
Janet Clephane
2066
21st Jan.
1827.
James Stevens
2067
9th Jan,
1828.
Murdoch Brown
Under this marble are deposited the remains of Frances
Smith, youngest daughter of John and Anne Arbuthnot,
of Mitcham in Surrey, where she was born on the
15th June 1772. She accompanied her sister to India in
1798 and in July 1799 became the happy wife of James Smith,
Esq., in the Honorable Company's Civil Service and an
eminent merchant of Bombay. Embarking for their native
land with her beloved husband and infant son and with the
most flattering prospects in view, she fell a victim to a fever
on board the Hawkesbury Indiaman on the 21st of Novem-
ber 1801. Her exemplary conduct in every station will
long be remembered by those who know her, and let this
simple record sent from England by her suffering husband to
mark the grave of a greatly loved and much lamented wife,
instruct the reader how insecure is the most enviable state
on earth.
James Smith of the Civil Service married Mifls Frances Arbuthnot
at Bombay on July 4, 1799.
Janet, wife of Hay Clephane of the H.E.I.C/s Civil Service,
Bombay Establishment, died at Dharmapatam near Telli-
cherry, aged 38 years.
Dharmapatam island lies about 2 miles north of the Tellicherry
fort. The Anjerakandy river divides into two branches as it
approaches the sea, and the land lying between them and the
sea constitutes the island.
James Stevens, many years Senior Judge of the Provincial
Court of Circuit for the Western Division, aged 58 years.
The first judge, a man known to have immense wealth (Lascelles
Reminiscences, page* 11 — 12).
He married Louisa Whitehill, at Mahe* June 3rd, 1800, They
had a son born at Mah£ June 1801. His wife was related to
Eliza Draper (born at Anjengo, April 5th, 1744), whose mother
was a Miss Whitehill and whose uncle John Whitehill was Gover-
nor of Madras in 1777.
At Bombay Stephen Whitehill, Chief and Custom-master at Mahim
and Senior Merchant at Bombay, died in May 1800.
Mubdoch Brown, aged 78 years.
Murdoch Brown was originally in French employ, but eventually
joined the Company's service. In 1802 the Company desiring
to abandon their cinnamon plantation at Handattera as unpro-
fitable, Murdoch Brown resigned his appointment and took a
ninety-nine years* lease of the garden, which made his fortune.
At Tranquebar 20th October 1790 Murdoch Brown, Imperial Consul
for the coast of Madras married Miss Eliza King. He had a son
F. C. Brown a Lieutenant in the 80th Regiment. In 1798 Murdoch
Brown was appointed overseer of the plantation which the Bombay
Government had commenced at Anjaracandy with a view to
raising pepper, coffee, cinnamon, cassia, etc. He became owner
of the plantation in 1802-3. In May 1798 he obtained the
sanction of Government for purchasing slaves — Pooliars. He
was suspected and expressly charged with being concerned in the
purchase of kidnapped children. Mr. T. H. Baber, Judge and
Magistrate of Zillah North Malabar, investigated and was challeng-
ed to a duel by Lieut. Brown and Mr. A. Douglas, C. S. and Mr.
Thomas Gahagan both servants of the Company.
On Nov. 20, 1850 at Tellicherry, G. Brown, Esq., died aged 66 j ears*
174.
MALABAR DISTRICT — cont.
8erial Date,
number.
(1)
(2)
Name.
(3)
Inscription.
TELLICHERRY — cont.
2068 10th Juno
1831.
Anstruthbb Chbape.
2069
2070
23rd June
1833.
4th Oct.
1838.
2071 10th April
1840.
Catherine Vaughan.
Thomas Atkinson . .
Helen Baber
2072
20th Jan.
1842.
Charles Francis
Warden.
2073
11th Deo.
1843.
John Sibbald
2074
2nd Oct.
1859.
Edward Brennen . .
2075
2076
31st Aug.
1868.
23rd Sept.
1868.
2077 25th Mar.
1837.
Augustus William
Sullivan.
Francis Carnac
Brown.
Edward Stuart
Stafford
Thompson.
Anstruther, the youngest son of John Cheape, Esq., of
Rossie in Fifeshire, Scotland, late Assistant Judge of Mala-
bar, died at Durmapatam near Tellicherry, aged 30 years and
8 months. Erected as a tribute of affection to his memory by
his brother Major Cheape of the Bengal Engineers.
His wife Caroline Matilda, second daughter of Daniel Neale, attorney
of Madras, died at Bellary, July 26th, 1828. Their daughter
married in 1849 Sir Henry Lushington, Bart., B.C.S. Major (after-
wards Sir) John Cheape, G.C.B., commanded the British forcea
in the Second Burmese War of 1853.
Catherine Maitland, wife of John Vaughan, of the Civil
Service.
Daughter of John Babington, C.S., and married May 30th, 1828.
Captain Thomas Atkinson, H. M. 13th Light Dragoons, aged
38 years.
Helen Somerville, aged 60 years, the beloved and devoted
wife for 42 years of Thomas Henry Baber, a retired Civil
Servant.
Baber succeeded St. John Thackeray as Principal Collector and
Political Agent in the Southern Mahrattah country in 1824.
He died at Cannanore on Aug. 5, 1843, aged 67 years. Baber's
Tank at Tellicherry is still well-known.
Lieut. Charles Francis Warden of the H.E.I.C.S. Indian
Navy, aged 30 years, second son of the late Colonel G. War-
den. Erected by his brothers.
Capt. W. M. Warden died in command of H. M's. Ship Rattlesnake
in the Bay of Bengal on the 5th of June 1807, aged 28. " To-
commemorate the private worth and professional merits of thia
promising officer, this momument is erected by his Commander-
in-Chief as a tribute of regard to his memory ";
Captain John Sibbald, of the 34th Regiment C.L.I., aged 34
years.
Captain Andrew Sibbald died at Vellore August 2, 1830. Major
Wm. Sibbald of the 9th N.I. died at Cawnpore March 3, 1800.
On October 3, 1799 W. C. Hutton, Esq., 2nd officer of the Horn
Company's Ship Manahip was married to Miss Heid, daughter of
Major Sibbald at Calcutta. In January 1801, Capt. John
Williams of Monghyr married Mrs. Sibbald. A John Sibbald waa
once Chief of Tellicherry (Hill's Orme, p. 135) 1768.
On July 20, 1818 at Bimlipatam, Lt Henry Sibbald, 1st Batt., 5th
N.I., was married to Elisabeth, eldest daughter of Col. J. Simons.
Edward Brennen, many years Master Attendant of Tellicherry ,
aged 75 years. He was one of God's noblest works in India,
a sterling upright Englishman.
In the church is a tablet " to Edward Brennen, native of London,
the founder of this church and of Brennen's free school.*' The
story goes that he was cabin boy of a ship which was wrecked off
Tellicherry. Murdoch Brown befriended him and procured him
the appointment of Master Attendant. He left large legacies to
build the church and support the European and Eurasian poor
of Tellicherry.
A. W. Sullivan, of the IVJadras Civil Service, aged 45 years.
See No. 1593.
Francis Carnac, aged 76 years, son of Murdoch Brown of
Tellicherry and Anjerakandy, born 10th Nov. 1792.
Edward Stuart Stafford Thompson, born 11th July 1839.
This stone is erected by his friends in Madras and England.
A planter related to the family of the Earl of Iddesleigh.
175
MALABAR DISTRICT — con*.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) O) (4)
CANNANORE PORT.
Cannanore a quiet pretty place, rather sad. It is pleasant to hear the waves breaking on the beach.
2078 28th Mar. Susanna Wbybrman Hier onder rust het lyk der egte vrouwe van de Heer Gode-
1745. and Godfried ' fbidus Wbybrman gen. Susanna Geertruyda Pfeiffers,
Wbybrman. in de kraam van eene doode soon overleden den 28 Maart Ao.
1745, oud synde 17 iaren 7 maanden en 16 dagen. Aan
weerzyden van deese sarksteen leggen begraven twee kin-
deren van gem. Heer Wbybrman geprocureerd uyt de
tweede egt med de vrouwe Joanna Anna Banistbr, het
eerste kind gent. Godfribd Wynando geboren den 28
Aug. 1749, gestorven den 2 Zber daaraan volgende, mits-
gaders het tweede kind genaamt Godfribd Jbhan, onstlapen
den 22 July Ao. 1 755 oud wesende 15 maanden en 8 dagen.
Translation of the Epitaph : Hereunder rests the body of the first
wife of Mr. Godfried Weyerman, Gentleman — Susan Gertruyda
Pfeiffers who died in childbirth of a still-born son on the 28th
March 1745, aged 17 years, 7 months and 16 days. On the other
side of the stone lie buried the children of this Weyerman be-
gotten by his second marriage with the widow Joanna Anna
Banister. The first, born 28th August, 1749, died on 2nd Sep-
tember following and likewise the second child named Godfried
Jehan who fell asleep on the 22nd July 1755, aged 15 months
and 8 days.
On the outer rampart of Fort St. Angelo. Godfried Weyerman
was Governor of Cochin from 1761 to 1764. Another of the
name was Dutch Minister at Cochin in 1739.
CANTONMENT CEMETERY, CANNANORE.
2079 31st July
1794.
John Lampard
2080
2081
4th Oct.
1799.
10th Dec.
1801.
Jambs Hartley
John Conrad
Sartorius.
2082 July 1802. Richard Collbtt
2083 10th Dec.
1806.
Marianne Sinclair.
2084 22nd April
1807.
Watson
Major John Lampard, Commanding the first Bombay Batta-
lion of European Infantry. This tomb was re-erected by
Lodge 983 holden in H.M.'s 69th Regiment on the 1st Jan.
1820, as a token of respect for a deceased brother.
He is said to have been killed in an action with Tippoo Sultan.
Major General Jambs Hartley.
Colonel John Conrad Sartorius of the Engineers, aged 60
years.
A Bombay officer who commanded the Engineers at the siege of
Seringapatam. He may possibly have been related to the
Tranquebar missionary Johann Anton Sartorius (1704-38), who
founded the Cuddalore mission.
(At Cannanore Richard Collbtt, Esq., assistant Surgeon of
the 2nd Bat. 2nd Bombay Regiment).
Lady Marianne, wife of Major Sir John Sinclair, Bart.
Sir John Sinclair died in 1842, a Lieutenant-General. He married
Miss Notley, December 8th, 1802, at St. Mary's, Fort St. George,
"in the presence of George Lys and J. Goldingham.*' Her
sister Sarah married Lt. (afterwards Lt.-Col.) James Henry Frith,
C.B.,of the Artillery, May 14th, 1809, who died at Madras, March
2nd, 1839, aged 39.
George Sinclair eldest son of the Rt. Honourable Sir John Sinclair,
Bart, was married to Camilla, second daughter of Sir William
Manners, Bart, nephew of the Earl of Dysart (Asiatio Journal,
March 1817).
(At Cannanore Lieut. Watson, H. M. 80th Regiment.)
176
MALABAR DISTRICT — cont.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
2085 28th Feb.
1809.
2086 15th May
1809.
2087 22nd Nov.
1812.
2088 1st Juno
1818.
2081) 5th July
1819.
209 ) 30th July
1819.
2091 8th Aug.
1819.
2092
2093
30th Jan.
1821.
10th April
1821.
2094 2nd May
1821.
2095 19th Jan.
1824.
2096
2097
16th Feb.
1824.
16th July
1825.
Name.
(3)
CANTONMENT
J. S. Cole
Samuel Forbes Mid-
dleton.
Solomon Walcii
John Scott
Inscription.
(4)
Samuel Mansell . ,
Campbell Kippen
James C. Hurdis
John Lindsay
Gilbert James
Blair
John Giles . .
Thomas Chambers.
CEMETERY, CANNANORE — cont.
(At Cannanoro Lieutenant John Shenton Cole 1st Battalion
2nd Regiment, N.I.)
He joined the army as Cadet in 1802 and was Lieutenant January
19, 1804.
Samuel Forbes Mtddleton, infant son of John and Amelia
Middleton, aged 2 years and 9 months.
Another son of J. Middleton died April 26, 1811.
Solomon Waloh, Captain H.M. 80th Regiment, aged 56
years.
" Well might the virtues of this old and respectable officer,
justify the highest eulogium " Lieut. J. Slade, 1st N.I. married
Miss M. Walch May 30, 1807.
Captain John Scott, Assistant Adjutant -General, aged 30
years.
Madras Almanac of 819 gives 2nd June 1818 as the date of his
death. He was the son of the late Francis Scott Esq. He joined
tho army as a Cadet in 1803 and was made Lieut. September
21, 1804.
Lieut. Samuel Mansell, 19th Regiment NX, aged 31 years.
He joined the army in 1806 and was Lieut. June 27, 1810.
He married, August 23rd, 1813, Miss A. H. Vanspall, daughter of
the late Governor of Cochin.
Lieut. Campbell Kippen, 19th M.N.I., aged 30 years.
Of. No. 2226.
He joinod the army in 1805 and was Lieut. August 2, 1806.
J. C. Hurdis, Captain 1st Battalion, 19th M.N.I., aged 38 years.
James Curtaie Hurdis joined the army in 1798, was Lieut. June 17,
1800 and was Captain December 17, 1805.
Son of tho well-known Collector of Madura (No. 298). He married
Miss Caroline Jeffreys, November 14th, 1815, and had a daughter
born on December 5, 1817 at Mangalore. On James C. Hurdis'
death, his widow married secondly Captain John Fulton, 6th,
N.I., September 1st, 1820, who retired in India 1833.
On Nov. 1, 1820 at Arcot, Lt. Henry Whit#, Quartermaster of
Brigade, Centre Division, was married to Miss Eliza Jeffreys by
the Rev. Mr. Smyth.
John Lindsay, Col. 7th Regt. N.I., aged 49 years.
He joinod the army in 1788, was Lieut. June 7th, 1792, Captain
January 1st, 1800, Major June 27th, 1805, Lieut. Col. May 30th
1810 and Col. August 12th, 1819.
He married Miss Diana Bunbury, January 15th, 1816.
Captain Gilbert James Blair of the 25th Native Infantry.
Major John Giles, H. M. 53rd Regt., aged 41 years.
(At Cannanore Captain T. Chambers of the 1st battalion 6th
Regiment, N.I.)
He joined the army as Cadet in 1800, was Lieutenant May 5, 1802
and Captain January 5, 1814.
Captain Henry Massey Cooper, of the 1st Battalion, 11th
Regt. M.N.I. , aged 40 years.
He joined the army in 1802, was Lieut. Nov. 16, 1803 and Captain
September 17, 1815.
Thomas Ariel Cham- Lieut. Thomas Ariel Chambers, 4th Battn., M.N.V., aged 36
bers. years.
He joined the army in 1803 and was made Lieut. September 21st,
1804 but pensioned April 19, 1811 in India.
Henry Massey
Cooper
MALABAR DISTRICHV^ont.
Serial
number.
(1)
Dale.
(2)
Name.
Inscription.
2098 15th June
1830.
2099 27th Deo.
1830.
2100 9th Jan.
1831.
2101 24th Mar.
1834.
2102 1st Jan.
1836.
2103 10th Aug.
1838.
(3) . - (4) k • \'<
CANTONMENT CEMETERY, CANNANORE — cont.
John O'Brien John O'Brien, a Tier, aged 55 years, pensioned jemadar of
the Bombay Establishment, who became a Christian and was
baptized at the age of 51 years, A.D. 1826.
Edward Whbatstonb. (At Cannanore East Indies in the 23rd year of his age, Ensign
Edward Whbatstonb, 54th Regiment, second son of Major
Wheatstone, late of the 53 rd Regiment).
John Dunstbrvhjle, Rev. John Dunstbrville, M.A., aged 55 .years, 17 years
Chaplain of this station. Erected by the society of Canna-
nore.
Son of Bartholomew Dunsterville of Plymouth, Devon, Gent. Exeter,
10 April 1794, aged 18 : B.A. 1798.
Edward Hbnry Edward Henry B'abbr, of the Bombay Civil Service, at the
Babbr. * early age of 21 years.
Assistant Collector of Ratnagiri. Probably son of No. 207 1 .
Edward Chamier, of the Bombay Civil Service, aged 29 years.
Edward Chamier . .
William Oliver
Shakespear.
2104 10th July
1840.
2105 18th April
1842.
2106 15th May
1844.
2107 3rd July
1854.
2108 29th Jan.
1855.
2109 7th Oct.
1857.
Frederick Dix
James Mandevillb
Hackett.
Robert Spence.
James William -
Clemons.
James Smith Sohon-
swar.
Alexander Stewart
Anderson.
Walter George
Yardb.
2110 11th Jan.
1867.
Charles George
Blomfield.
William Oliver 'Shakespear, of the Madras Civil Service,
aged 56 yoars.
Ho married , January 8,- 1810, Leonora Charlotte Maxtone, who
died at Cannanoro, August 3rd, 1832, aged 42 years, and is buried
opposite her husband. He was presumably a brother of John
Talbot Shakespear, B.G.S., -who -married in April 1803 Emily
Thackeray, aunt of the novelist.
He had a son born on February 28th, 1816 at Madura (Asiatio
Journal, October 1816.)
Frederick Dix, Surgeon of H.M. 94th -Regiment, aged 51
years, who rests beneath this stone, after 27 years of faithful
service to his country in various parts of the world.
Major-General James Mandevillb Hackett, Colonel of the
51st Madras N.I., aged 61 years.
Miss Hackett married Major General Hare on July 1, 1816
(Asiatic Journal, Feb. 1817).
Lieut. R. B. Spbnce, 45th Regt. N.I., aged 25 years, and Ensign
J. W. Clemons, aged 17 years, who were drowned at Canna-
nore, the former losing his life in attempting to rescue his
comrade.
Lieut. -Colonel James Smith Schonswar, H.M. 25th Regt.,
aged 49 years.
Alexander Stewart Akdbrson, Madras Civil Service, a/jed
29 years.
Walter George Yardb, Lieut- Colonel, 3rd Regt. of P.L.I. ,
aged 50 years. . - -
Lately (June 1800) at Vizagapatam, Lieut. Henry Yarde was married
to Mrs. Elizabeth Geraud, widow of the late Captain W.T. Geraud.
Miss Lawson was married on May 10, 1794 at Vizagapatam
to Lieutenant William Thomas Geraud, who died a Captain
and is buried in Madras Fobruary 10, 1800. She was daughter
of Patrick Lawson formerly Commander of the Lord Holland
Indiaman, who married Elizabeth, sister of Sir Benjamin Sullivan,
July 18, 1778. He died Oth October - 1820 at Vizagapatam
aetatis 76.
On Aug. 2, 1847, the infant son of Capt. Yarde, 3rd Regiment,
M.L.I. died at Kaladghee. On Jan. 31, 1847, Maj. T. H.
Yarde, 28th Regt., N.I. died at Hurryhur.
Captain Charles George Blomfield, M.S.C., Superintendent
of Police, aged 38 years.
Son of Bishop Blomfield (Bishop of London, 1828-56) and brother
of Sir Arthur William Blomfield, A.R.A., the well-known
architect.
VOL. 11—23
178
8eri»l
aumber.
(1)
Date.
(2)
MALABAR D J STRICT- cont.
Name. Inaorip»,« .
2111 12th July
1868.
2112 19th Aug.
1887.
2113 23rd April
1805.
2114 26th May
1805.
2115 6th Mar.
1807.
2116 26th Mar.
1820.
2117 4th Sept.
1849.
Jambs Denton
Egbbbt Mounolat
(3) (4)
CANTONMENT CEMETERY, CANNANORE— cont.
James Denton, Major in the Madras Army, aged 80 years,
after a servioe to his Queen and country of 60 years.
A man of Herculean physique, who obtained his commission through
the ranks.
At Bednore Jan. 15, 1807 Lt. Denton, 8th N.I., died.
Egbert Alexander Greenville James, son of Prince
Mounolat, born on the 13th August 1887.
Prince Mounglat was a Burmese political prisoner, who married
a Conductor's daughter.
QUILON.*
(Lieutenant Edward Ormsby of the 2nd Battalion 6th Regi-
ment, Native Infantry, died at Quilon on the 23rd April
1805).
Lieut. R. Ormsby married at Pondicherry October 1800, M'me
Welsh de Chermont.
(Lieut. H. J. Cope, 2nd Battalion, 13th N.I., died at Quilon in
Travancore, 26 May 1805.)
(The Lady of Doctor Harris at Quilon.)
Edward Ormsby
Henry John Cope
Harris
C. A. Thursby
(Ensign C. A. Thursby, 89th Foot, died at Quilon.)
PERINTALMANNA, WALLUVANAD TALUK.
James Hart.
Thomas Blake.
Within this tomb rest the remains of James Hart and Thomas
Blake, late privates in the Grenadier Company, H.M.'s
94th Regt. They fell in an action on the 4th Sept. 1849,
while gallantly contending with a band of fanatic Moplahs
in a temple near Angadipuram, the property of the Rajah
of Walluvanad, who has caused this tomb to be erected in
memory of the departed, and as a small return for the ser-
vices rendered him on that day by their surviving comrades
of the grenadiers.
This tomb is outside the Travellers' Bungalow, which occupies
the same compound as the Tahsildar's cutcherry.
TANGACHERRY.
Tangacherry is a British possession in Travancore State 2 miles from Quilon and only 96 acres in extent. Two cemeteries are
on the headland near the site of the new lighthouse separated by the road leading to the flag •staff. A handsome time-worn
belfry stands in the centre of the Protestant graveyard.
2118 1779. Frederick Thbuiteb. Hier rust ter saliger opstanding het lyk van den manhaften
Heer Frederick Thruitbr, overleden alhier Ao. 1779,
in syn leven Commandant.
This monument is much decayed and part of it fell on the writer
as he was copying the inscription. Fort Thomas at Tangacherry
was constructed in 1603 by the Portuguese. The greater part
of it has been swaUowed up by the sea.
2119 7th Jan. Peter Fenoulhbt Lieutenant Peter Fenoulhet, aged 25 years. Erected by
1810. the officers of the 2nd Batt., 14th Regt., N.I., in memory
of their most lamented friend and brother officer.
He joined the army in 1802 and was Lieut. June 1, 1804.
His brother, Lieutenant William Fenoulhet, died at Arnee, July
16th, 1823, and his brother's wife at Samulcottah, October 20th
1813. '
William Fenoulhet joined the army in 1806 and was Lieut. March
14, 1813. He resigned the service (20th N.I.), 26 Sept,' 1815.
In Travancore State.
179
Se"ial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
2120 24th April
1810.
2121 25th Feb.
1812.
2122 25th Sept.
1812.
2123 23rd Oct.
1814.
2124 15th Oct.
1815.
2125 1st May
1817.
2126
2127
2128
MALABAR DISTRICT-nconi.
Name. Inscription*
(3) (4)
TANGACHERRY — cont.
Jacques Andric de A le M6raoire de Jacques Andr£ de Vallois, n6 a Paris
le 30 Novembre 1772, dee6d6 a Quilon le 24 Avril 1810.
Vallois.
John Walker
William Bbale
William Musorave.
John White . .
Thomas Arthur
10th April
1819.
John Lyons
Walcott.
Ray
1st July
1819.
28th Jan.
1820.
Catherine
lois.
de Val-
A planter.
Captain John Walker, 2nd Batt., 14th N.I., aged 37 years.
Madras Almanac gives 24th Feb. 1812 as the date of his doath.
He joined the army as Cadot in 1790, was Lieut. Oct. 12, 1798 and
Captain Oct. 16, 1805.
Captain William Beale, Land Superintendent of Quilon on
25th Sept. 1812 Aet. 43.
A Captain Anthony Beale who joined the army in 1769, died Nov
23, 1795, at Ahtoor. (Army list).
Lieut. William Musgrave, aged 33 years, of the 80th Regiment
of Foot.
Lieut.-Col. JonN White of the 80th Foot, aged 37. By his
afflicted widow.
Captain Thomas Arthur of the Madras Engineers, aged 37
years.
Son of the Rev. Mr. Arthur, Risolis, Ross-shiro. He joined the
service in 1795, was Lieut. Oct. 14, 1802 and Captain Nov. 15 p
1810.
Lie enterred here below John Lyons Ray Walcott. To the
most genuine benevolence he joined many virtues and
few faults. Death found him prepared ; fortitude never
forsook him. He met his death as became a Christian, and
will long be regretted by his numerous friends.
He died at the Quilon Residency.
Ciglt Catherine de Vallois, veuve de Jaoques Andre* de
Vallois, native de Negapatam et d6c6dee le 1 Juillet 1819,
ag6e de 41 ans.
Edward Moulson . . Lieut. Edward Moulson, of the 89th Regiment.
2129 11th July John Dennet Web- Captain J. W. Rand, 15th Regt., N.I., late 2nd Batt. 4th Regt.
1824. ber Rand.
A Captain Charles Rand, Town Major of Seringapatam, died at
Bangalore, August 21st, 1808.
2130 27th Nov. Maria Thruiter
1828.
2131
6th Deo.
1833.
Henry Stirling
Robinson.
Maria Catherina, wife of the late Dutch Commandant
F. Thruiter, aged 80 years.
See No. 2118.
Henry Stirling, aged 27 years, son of Sir George Abercrombie
Robinson, Bart., of Batt's house in the county of Somer-
setshire and of Dame Margaret Southwell. This stone
was erected by his brother Francis.
Sir O. A. Robinson was director and chairman of the East India
Company and M. P. for Honiton. His wife was a daughter
of the fourteenth Earl of Suffolk. Francis Robinson married,
March 1st, 1853, Anne, widow of Arthur Raikes, B.C.S., and
died without issue in 1856. The fifth baronet Sir E. W.
Robinson was descended from the Rev, W. S. Robinson*
another brother and was an indigo -planter at Purneah, Bengal!
vol. n— 23a
180
MALABAR DISTRICT-^.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (t) («) W
TANGACHERRY — cont.
2132 11th Sept. Peter Vanspall .. Peteb Vanspall, Esq., aged 53 years, late Resident of Mana-
1848. par, of H. N. Majesty's service and son of the late Peter
Vanspall, also H. N. Majesty's late Resident at Tutucoreen.
19 Feb. 1792 Cornelia Vanspall of Utregt met Theresa Elis Scheids
Van Koet [...] Jonge doeter beidgger. Deo. 10, 1786 John
Lembert Vanspall van Utregt Wed. met Maria Patrmith Cornelia
van Cochin Jonge d. beide ger. He died at Cochin at the age of
68. (Asiastic Journal, Dec. 1816). Mrs. F. L. Vanspall died Aug.
1810.
The Vanspalls are still found on the West Coast, and there is a
tradition among them that a great fortune awaits the Vanspall
who has the ability to prove to the Dutch Government his descent
from the original John Lambert Vanspall who was the last
Governor of Cochin. This Peter Vanspall married Joanna
Groenroede, the widow of George Fischer (d. 1812.) See No. 2440.
ANJENGO FORT.
The best description of Anjengo is that given in the Reminiscences of Colonel James Welsh, who was nearly drowned in the
many rivers he had to cross to get there in 18 1 9 : 44 This place once so famous in Eastern History is now fast going to decay ;
the fort on the sea-shore resembled that of Tuticorine, being a commodious square, with the interior completely oocupied
by a capital Government House and other public buildings, all of which tottering to their foundations have been lately sold
for the materials, and are now dilapidated. I put up in a small Portuguese house on the backwater, immediately under
the eastern face of the fort, and said to be the very house in which Eliza Draper was born ; but which, like all the rest of
the place, bore evident marks of better days. Sic transit gloria mundi. The remembrance of the Abb6 Raynal's apos-
trophe to Sterne's Eliza from his History of India, made me somewhat desirous of beholding this place ; but time has now
left no trace of a woman, whose name has been most capriciously handed down to posterity by two eccentric priests, who
might have employed their talents on a much better subject, so far as we can learn at this distant period. Still, in spite
of my disapprobation of Lawrence Sterne's heroine, I found myself mechanically led to seek some relique and actually robbed
a broken window of two or three pieces of oyster shell, in memento of my visit to the birth place of Eliza Draper. Another
century, and even the site of the house will be washed away, or mingled with promiscuous ruins ; while Sterne's writings
will last to the end of this sublunary sphere ; a proof to after-agos of his transcendant wit, his energetic feelings, and, I am
sorry to add, his unfortunate depravity." Eliza Draper was the daughtor of May Sclater, a Bombay factor, who married
a Miss Whitehill. She was born at Anjengo, April 5th, 1744, and educated in England. On July 28th, 1758, when little
more than 14, she married Daniel Draper, Secretary to the Bombay Government, a man 20 years her senior ; and in 1765
paid a visit to England with him and her two children. It was there that Sterne met hor at Commodore James'
house in Soho. Two years later she returned to India and lived with Mr. Draper at Tellicherry and Surat, of which
places he was Chief. But her married life was not a happy one, and she eloped from his residence at Mazagon near
Bombay on January 12th, 1773, and sought refuge with her maternal uncle at Masulipatam, where she gave her name
to Eliza's Tree. She died on August 3rd, 1778, at Bristol and has a monument in the Cathedral cloisters. An article
in Hickey's *' Bengal Gazette " No. XLV, 1 780, describes her as a native of St. Helena, but apparently without foundation.
Another celebrity born at Anjengo was the historian Orme, once Fourth in Council at Madras. His father was a physician
who rose to be Chief of the factory, and his son was born on Christmas Day, 1728. James Forbes, F. R. S. grandfather
of the well-known Montalembert, was Resident of Anjengo in 1772 and describes it at length in his Oriental Memoirs. His
engraving of it, taken from the sea, shows the cemetery on the beach with its tall white monuments. Thirty of these
have no inscription, but one of them certainly marks the resting place of J. Whitehill, a relative of Eliza's who
joined the Company** service as writer. 44 On the application of Charles Whitehill an old servant of the Company his son
John Whitehill entertained a writer in Madras in 1752 and sometimes ago allowed to resign with leave to reside in India as
a free merchant is permitted as a particular indulgence to resume his former rank." (Despatches from the Company to
George Pigot dated Jan. 23, 1759.) He was Chief of Anjengo prior to 1743, and died in 1769. The massive laterite fort
is s tiU standing and in a good state of preservation. Richard Bourchier (1688-1770) was Chief of Anjengo in succes-
sion, to Whitehill in 1743, appointed 2nd in Council at Bombay 1749 and succeeded Mr. Wake as President 1750.
For Anjengo see Lookeyer, Forbes, Bombay Quarterly Review No. XII Oct. 1857 (art. 1. The E.I.C.'s Factory in Malabar).
For Sterne's Eliza see article by Lewis Melville in Fortnightly Review for June 1910. XIII, p. 1137.
2133 12th [sic] Sept. Deborah Brabourn. Here lyes Deborah, the wife of John Brabourn, Esquire,
1704. Commodor of Anjengo. She was born the 4 of November
1676, marriod the 25 of September 1695, deceased Sept. the
2 1704.
Deborah Brabourn's two little children are buried at Fort St.
George, 1708. Her husband John Brabourn married secondly
Ann Bright, June 28th, 1705 (see No. 50).
2134 1777 JohnTorlepb JohnTorlepe.
This appears to have been the name inscribed on the slab opposite
Deborah Brabourn's. The stone is now worn perfectly smooth.
„ John Torlepe was second Resident of Anjengo, the Chiefihip
having been reduced to a Residency in 1776.
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MALABAR DISTRICT^on*.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (*) (3) (4)
ANJENGO CEMETERY.
. • Here lieth interred the body of Maby Walker, wife of SAMtma.
Walker, who departed this life the 7th May 1726, aged 24.
. . Here lieth the body of Anne Wrench, who departed this
life Nov. 25th Anno 1773, aged 87.
The loss of one let us good people deplore
So famed for virtue, piety, charity and more,
Formed in mind without a single fault ,
Scarce any body is free from envy but in part.
Can any one pass by this lifeless tomb
Without reflecting how short it is to come
That every body must follow her ere soon or late.
To live and be like her may wish to be their fate.
P. E. Wrench was Chief of Anjengo from 1769 to 1774.
CHETWAI FORT.
Ter godagtenisse van den E. Wilhem Blasser in syn leeven
Cappetyn Luytenant en eerste commandant ter fortresse
Wilhelmus tot Chettua overleeden den 2 February A 1729.
This slab was recovered from the site of the old fort of Chetwai
(about "4 miles south of Chowgat in the Ponnani taluk) by some
MoplaS who took it to their mosque. Mr. Logan, Collector of
Malabar and author of tho District Manual, had it removed to
the Deputy Tahsildar's office, and it now lies in the compound
of that building.
PORTUGUESE TOMBS IN THE CHURCH OF ST. FRANCIS, COCHIN.
The Church of St. Francois is the oldest church in India. The year 1500 A.D. saw the first arrival of the Portuguese on the Malabar
Coast at the port of Cochin. They obtained permission to live on this tongue of land from the ftajah of Cochin ; and, to
protect themselves, they built a fort and religiously erected a fine Cathedral, which has sine© been destroyed. When these
two works were completed, the Franciscan monks, who acoompanied % Vasco da Oama to India, built in 1604 A.D, a small
wooden church on the maidan for their exclusive use and named it St. Francis. The Portuguese prospered ; therefore the
Governor, Alphonso Albuquerque, erected the present structure of laterite and cement som© time between 1504 and 1524
A.D. On the return of Vasco da Gama in 1524, he had the church enlarged and he himself was buried in it at the close
of that year. (Fourteen years afterwards his remains were removed to Portugal by his fifth son, and deposited at Vidi-
gueira : there they remained in 1872 when they were removed to Lisbon).
The church is a large one, being 160 feet long, 70 feet wide and 50 feet high. The walls are made of laterite and are about
4 feet thick. The north and south sides are supported by heavy buttresses on each side. The chancel and nave are the
same breadth throughout, but the chancel is separated by four stone steps and a large arch. In the west end is a small
gallery. The only church furniture that the Portuguese left were two old brass lamps. In 1663 A.D. the Dutch took Cochin
and turnod out the Portuguese, and used St. Francis Church as their special place of worship, turning tho Cathedral into
a storehouse. Unfortunately the Protestant Dutch destroyed all the symbols of Rome, and the old record books were lost.
Not content with this vandalism, they used the backs of the old Portuguese monuments to inscribe their own inscriptions,
the reason being that there is no stone in Cochin, and it has to be hauled from the hills which aro sixty miles distant. The
Dutch tenure was not quite so long as the Portuguese, when they, in turn, were ousted by the British in 1795 A.D. Only
the Communion Table and an old reading stand, used as a lectern, now remain of the Dutch possession and all their records
have been lost.
The interesting-feature of the church is the Portuguese and Dutch monuments. These were removed from the floor of the church,
to save the inscription from being erased by the feet of the worshippers, and placed among the sides of the north and south
in 1884. Thus they can be easily inspected. One curious monument is worth translating ; it is as follows : — "Here rests
the corpse, the chill, cold bones of the late Mr. Adrian Polvliet, Junior Merchant, and formerly chief of . . .
Cannanore. Died 10th Sep. 1799." See No. 2193. It seems the man died under some mysterious circumstances and only
his bones were recovered.
Cochin was first visited by Portuguese ships under Admiral Cabral on December 24th, 1500, when the Rajah of Cochin gave
the strangers leave to trade. Vasco da Gama came in 1502 and left some of his men. In 1503 Alphonso Albuquerque
arrived with a fleet of six sail and commenced the Fort St. Emmanuel. The Franciscan friars who accompanied his expedi-
tion built a small wooden chapel, on the site of which the stone church of St. Francis (Francis of Ass is i 1182) was afterwards
erected. On January 8th, 1663, the Dutch took Cochin and converted the Franciscan church into their own place of worship
and turned the cathedral of Santa Cruz into a sugar warehouse. The Dutch occupation lasted 132 years. In 1795, on the
conquest of Holland by the French, the place was besieged and captured by Major Petrie. In 1806 for strategic reasons
the English blew up the cathedral. The town of Cochin is a mile in length and half a mile in width. It was a prosper*
ous and fine town when in possession of the Dutch*
2135 7th May Maby Walker
1726.
2136 25th Nov* Anhb Wrench
1773.
2137 2nd Feb. Wilhem Blasser
1729.
IS 2
Serial
number.
(1)
Date*
MALABAR DISTRICT-conf.
Name.
Inscription.
(2) (3) W
PORTUGUESE TOMBS IN THE CHURCH OF ST. FRANCIS, COCHIN — cont.
2138
2139
20th Jan.
1546.
8th Feb.
1549.
Diooo Dias
Pantalia Lbdo
Esta sepultura he de Diooo Dias e de seus decedetes ho qual
faleceo a XX de Janeiro 546.
Apparently the oldest inscription and the only one in Gothic letters ►
It has a blank coat of arms.
Aqui jaz Pantalia Ledo e sua molher Joanna D' Aounha e
faleceo aos oito de Fevereiro de 549 anos.
2140 15th May Francisco and Lopez Esta sepultura e de Francisco RoTz Milao e de seus erdeiros
2141
2142
faleceo 15 de Maio 1560 e de eermao Lopez Milao faleceo 24
de Jan Ao de 1565.
Inscription on the reverse of the stone used for the epitaph of the
Dutch commander Adrian van Ommen, November 27th, 1696.
Aqui jas Maria Mendes aqual pede pelo amor de Deos hum
Pater Nostre por sua alma. Faleceo aos 14 de Fevereiro de
1562 anos.
1st Oct. Isabel Mascarenhas. Aqui jaz Isabel de Lisboa molher do Bernabe Masoarenhas
1562. que faleceo primeiro de Oitubro 1562.
1560 and
24th Jan.
1565.
14th Feb.
1562.
Milao.
Maria Mendes
2143 May 1567. Vasco Pimentel
2144 1578
Francisco Gonsalvez
Madera.
S. de Vasco Frz Pimentel do conselho de sua majestade
faleceo em maio de 67 avendo tres anos e sinco meses que .
. . . aqui esta cidade.
44 Grave of Vasco Fornandes Pimentel of the council of his Majesty
having (ruled) three years and five months in this city." Vasco de
Pimentel was Governor of Cochin from 1564 to 1567. This slab
was long pointed out as the tombstone of Vasco da Gama from
the occurrence upon it of the name Vasco. It is broken into two
equal halves, the upper portion bearing a coat-of-arms, the lower
a much defaced epitaph. The armorial bearings are well preserved
and the first quarterings somewhat resemble the original arms-
of the Gama family which, since Vasco da Gama, are quartered
with the Quinas or national banner of Portugal. Vasco da Gama,
Conde da Vidigueira, Almiranto, Visorei das Indias, died in the
town of Cochin on the morning of Christmas day 1524 and was
buried with great pomp in this church, then the principal chapel
of the Franciscan monastery dedicated to St. Anthony. Fourteen
years later the mortal remains of the discoverer of the Cape
route to India were removed to Portugal by his fifth son Pedro
da Silva da Gama and deposited at Vidigueira. Here they
rested till 1872 when they were carried to Lisbon to be deposited
in the Portuguese Pantheon.
Nesta terra se agasalhou
Francisco Glz Madera
Quando a vida acabou,
Em ooanto nella trabalhou.
Ispiramdo na deradeira tudo nada se tornou,
So* a sua alma que encommendou
A Deos que lhe && a gloria para qual elle criou
Que tenha delle memoria ainda que o nao agradou.
Credo in unum Deum Pater Noster Ave Maria ano de 1578,
44 In this earth hath taken repose Francis Gonsalvez Madera, when
the life came to a close (acabar = achever) during which he worked.
Expiring at last all became nothing save his soul which he com-
mended to God that He may give it the glory for which he created
it, and that He may remember it, although it hath not pleased
him."
2145 17th April Ioao de Figbredo Sopultura de Ioao de Figeredo e de seus erdeiros faleseo
1611. desate de Abril de seis sentos e onse.
Dezesete seventeenth.
183
{Serial
number.
Date*
MALABAR DISTRICT-<wtf.
Name.
(1) (2) (3)
PORTUGUESE TOMBS IN THE CHURCH OF ST.
Inscription.
FRANCIS, COCHIN — cont.
2146
23rd Feb.
1615 and
8th May
1628.
Graces and Gracia
Pantaliao.
2147 1615
ESTBVAM RABBLLO
2148
2149
10th June
1616.
15th Aug.
1616.
2150 1631
Antonio Cortbs
Francisco Pinto
D' Azbvbdo.
Manobl do Valb
2151
2152
1632
1634
2153 1634
Francisco Gomes
Leitao.
chapelm aster
Manobl Pbstana . .
2154 1650
2155 1655
Marcos Botblho
Diooo Vincents
2156 Undated. Ioroe Dias . .
De Pantauao Alz Graces q faleoeo aos 23 de Fro de 615
annos e de sua molher Gracia Vra q faleoeo aos 8 de Maio
de 628 e de seus erdros a q sa seu fo Anto Graces Vra madou
fazer era de 1629 an.
14 To Pantaliao Alvarez Graces who died on the 23rd Feb.
1615 and to his wife Gracia Vieira who died on the 8th May 1628
and to his heirs ; which tomb his son Antonio Graces Vieira
ordered to be made in the era of 1629."
Aqui estou por morador esperando ser justificado do meo
Christo Redetor o qual por mim gran pecador qis more (r)
crucificado. Estevam Rabello 15.
44 Here I am as a dweller hoping to be justified by my Redeemer
Christ who was willing to die crucified for me a great sinner.
Stephen Rebello." This stone now lying in the porch was found
buried 2 feet below the ground and broken in several places.
Estevam is the Portuguese form of Stephen. The best known
Padre Estevam is Thomas Stephens, s.J., of New College, Oxford,
Rector of the College at Salsette, the first Englishman to actually
visit India (1579). His letters to his father which are still extant
aroused great enthusiasm in England and led to the opening up
of direct trade with India.
Notes on the First Anglo-Indian and other subjects by J. A. Saldanha,
b.a., ll.b : This book is dedicated to the late A. M. T. Jackson,
I.C.S., whose valuable review on the now famous Christian
Puran of Thomas Stephens, the first Englishman in India, is
printed in the Appendix.
Sa d* Antonio Cortbs e de seus erdeiros faleseo a 10 d. Iunho
16.
Esta sepultura he de Francisco Pinto D'Azevedo e de seus
erdeiros oujo ditozo fim foi aos 15 de Agosto anno do Senhor
616.
Cujo. 44 Whose happy end was.*'
Sepultura de Manobl do Valb e de seus erdeiros e desenden-
tes. Esta pedra lhe mandou por Thomas Retao Carneiro
era de seis sentos e trinta e hum anos.
14 This stone Thomas Carneiro ordered to be placed here in the
era 1631."
Esta sepultura e de Fba. Gomes Leitao e de sua molher Mesba
1632.
Mestre de Capela da Se. E. 1634.
44 Chapel master of the See. Era 1634."
Sa de Manoel Pbstana e de seus erdeiros. Manoel Rodriguez
de Lueena bisneto do sobredito mandou abrir este letreiro.
Anno 1634.
Bisneto. 44 The great grandson of the aforesaid ordered thu
writing to be engraved."
Esta S. he de Marcos Botblho e de seus erdeiros 1650.
Sepultura do irmao mestre Diooo Surgiao e de seu filho Pe
Nicolao Vincbntb e de sua molher Francisoa db Brito que
Ds tern e seus erderos 1655.
44 Tomb of brother (Spanish hermano «= germanus) master Diogo,
Surgeon, and of his son Father Nicolas Vincente and of his wife
whom God hath and of his heirs/*
Esta sepultura he de Iobob Dias e de seus herdeiros.
184
MALABAR DISTRICT — cont.
Name. Inscription.
2158 Do.
Serial Date,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
PORTUGUESE TOMBS EN THE CHURCH OF ST. FRANCIS, COCHIN — cont.
2157 Undated . . Joao Pereira Japao. Esta sepultura he de Joao Pereira Japao e de sua niolher
Cbistina Botblha e de seus (herdeiros).
. Franoisoo Rodriguez Sa. de Froo Rz de Spinhoza e de seus erdeiros.
de Spinhoza. .
Madanella PiNtA . . Esta sepultura he de Madanella Pinta he de seus erdeiros.
Amayo db Soza . . Sepultura de Amayo de Soza e de sua molher e de . . .
, Margarida de Faria. Esta sepultura o de Maroarida de Faria.
Antonio de Brito Sepultura de Antonio db Brito Fogaoa e de sua molher Dona
Fogaoa. Ines de Melgoza e de seus herdoros e decedetes.
Coat of arms.
Tristam de Bar- Esta capela e sepultura he de Tristam de Barbuda e de Anna
buda. Fernandez sua molher e de s(ous) ....
Franoisqo de Masb- Esta sepultura he de Franctsqo de Masedo e de sua molher
do. Francisqa d 'Almeida ede seus erdeiros.
Gaspar Rodriguez Aqui jaz Gaspar Rodriguez db Sousa, filho de Paolo Royz
de Sousa. de Sousa e de Violante de Benavides, natural da ilha de San
Miguel. (Fine coat of arms.)
The island of St. Michael is the principal and most fertile of the
Azores. There is a description of it in the Annual Register for
1778 by Mr. Francis Mason " written in a lottor to Mr. William
Alton, botanical gardener to his Majesty."
2159
2160
2161
2162
2163
2164
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do-
Do-
2165 Do.
'2166
2167
DUTCH TOMB STONES IN THE CHURCH OF ST. FRANCIS, COCHIN.
26th Oct. Sara Van Der Hier rust juffrouw Sara Van Hbiningen huisvrouw van
1664. Dusse. Lucas Van Der Dussb Fiscael over Teiland end Ceilons
custe van Madure Malabaar overleden den 26 October Ao
1664.
This is the oldest Dutch inscription, being dated 1664, the year after
the Dutch took Cochin. Some of the words are unreadable.
18th Mar. Balthasar de Me- Balthasar db Meter in syn leven Predicant overleden
1666. ter. XVIII Maart Ac MDCLXVI
In the Dutoh fleet that took Cochin was a clergyman Doctor An t ho -
niua Scherlus who according to Governor Moens was the first
Protestant to preach in Cochin. The earlier clergy after
him were : Henrious Wallius 1663, died 1665; the famous author,
Philippus Baldaeus, January 28th, 1664, # who left soon after,
and died in 1671 at Geervliet in South Holland; Jacobus Maxwea
and Bartholomeus Ileynen, who arrived November 1664 and left
January 1665 for Ceylon ; Dr. Balthasar Obiode Meter, February
1665.
2168 4th Aug* Gerrit Jansz de Hierlegt begraven Gerrit Jansz de Vries gebooren in Olden-
1670. Vbies. burg in syn leven Lwienandt in diengt den E. Oostindysche
Companye in den Heer ontalapen den 4 Augustus ano 1670
in't 30 iaer zyn ouderdom.
This epitaph is in raised letters.
2169 29th April Barbnd Hermans- Hier legt den ouden ileer Captein Barbnd Hjjrmanssoon^
1673. soon. Syn deucht manhaften eer verdient tot lof een Kroon. Vixit
63 annos, obiit 2<* April Ao. 1673.
«' Her© lies the old Captain Barend Hermanssoon. His virtues and
manly honour have earned the glory of a crown.'*
2170 17th Aug. Maria Berkms ... Hier leyt begraven Maria B^jrkms overleden 17 Augusty Ao.
X673. 1673 out 27 m. 10 d.
185
MALABAR DISTRICT — cont.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
DUTCH TOMBSTONES IN THE CHURCH OF ST. FRANCIS, COCHIN — cont.
2171 2nd June Elizabeth and Elisabbt Reyns visit 2 annos obiit 2 Junii Ao 167. Esper-
and 20th Esperanza Rbyns. anoa D'Abbeo huysvrouw van Hendrio Rbyns vixit 24
Dec. 1673. annos obiit 20 Xber A ). 1673.
The Dutoh came to Cochin in 16(33 and Mynheer Reyns or Reijns
evidently married a Portuguese lady.
2172 21st Feb. Cornelius and Pbtbb Hier rust Cornelis Vosburo obiit 21st Febry Ao. 1677 oudfc
and 29th Vosbubo. 9 maenden, en Pieteb Vosburo in den Heere ontslapen
June 1677. den 29 I »ni deselven iaars outgewest 23 iaaren mitsgadera
Cobnelis Vosburo de tweedo gestorven den 23rd Aug. ?nt *
voorn. iaar 5 daegen nn syn geboorte.
2173 23rd Aug. Spiliardus Family. (Hierleggen) begraven . . . De Vribs Johannes, Josias
2679. en Gerabdus Spiliardus zynxta de huysvrouw en kinderen
van Johannes Spiliardus, ondercoopman in dienst den
E. Compe, overleden don 23 Aug. 1679 ; 26 July 1673 22en
Stembr 1682 en 12en Febr. 1683 oud 21, een, 8 en 7 iaaren.
2174 12th Dec. Adrian Van Lier . . Hieronder leyt en rust d'E Adrian Van Libr oppercoopman
1680. in dienst der E. Compe en secunde van Mallabar obit 12
Dec. 1680.
2175 19th Dec. Dirk Van Lier Hieronder rust en leyt begraven Dirk Van Lier in syn leven
1680. erst adsistent in dienst der E. Compe oud 20 iaeren obit 19
Dec. Ao. 1680.
2176 22nd July Jacob Schoors . . Hier rust Sr. Jacob Schoors den laetsten ondercoopman en
1682. hooft in Cananoor out 27 iaren obiit 22en Iuly anno 1682.
2177 29th Dec. Lea Van Dielen . . Hier rust jufvrouw Lea Vandekouter huysvrouw van d'E
1688. Heer Commandeur Isaac van Dielen overloden den 29en
Xber Ao 1688 out zynde 32 iaren met der oenige uyron en
Lea Geertru yda van Dielen haare beyde dogter je gestorven
den lien Novber bevorens oud 3 iaren 5 maenden en 17
dagen.
2178 31st Doc. Robbebt Lindzaby. Hier rust d'E Robbert Lindzaey oppercoopman in dienst
1690. der E. Compe administrates en secunde over de custe Mala-
baar Canara en Wingurla natus Ao 1640 obyt den 31 Xber
Ao 1690 met zyn huysrouw Maroareta Minnes nata Ao
1650 obiit den 6 Aug. Ao 1689 en Pieter Minnes ondercoop-
man in dienst der E. Compe overloden den 25 Zber Ao 1677
met syn huysvrouw Adriana Coesaart obyt Ao 16.
The name Lindzaey reads like a Dutch corruption of Lindsay,
Like the Mackays, he may have belonged to one of the many
Scotch families who took shelter in Holland during the last half
of the seventeenth century. Alexander Lindsay, the first earl of
Balcarres, and a devoted adhorent of Charles the First, died in
exile at Breda in 1659 ; and his son Colin, the third earl (1652-
1722), lived in exile on the continent for many years. The
connection of the Mackays with Holland is still maintained, and
the heir-presumptive of Lord Reay (Governor of Bombay from
1885-1890) is Baron Aeneas Mackay, a former Prime Minister
of the Netherlands and President of the second Chamber of th#
Parliament.
2179 25th Deo. Isaac Van Dielen , , Hier order rust d'E Heer Isaac Van Dielen Commandeur en
1693. opper-bevelhebber van de custe van Mallabaer Cannara en
Wingurla overleden den 25 December des avonts tussen 10
en 11 uyren oudt synde 41 iaaren 7 maenden en 20 dagen
Ao 1693.
He was Commander-in-Chief and died between 10 and 11 o'olock
in the evening (avont = Abend, tussen » twischen).
The Dutoh settled at Vingorla in 1655. It is on the sea, nea r
Belgaum, and one of the prettiest ports on the coast.
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number.
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Name.
Inscription.
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DUTCH TOMBSTONES IN THE CHURCH OF ST. FRANCIS, COCHIN — cont
Adrian Van Ommen,
2181
4th Dec. Hester Duloina de
1727. Jonq.
2182
3rd May
1739.
Gustaaf and Ursula
Stein van GOLLE-
NESSE.
2180 27th Nov. Adrian Van Ommen. Hier onder d'E. Heer Adrian Van Ommen, Commandeur
1696. en opper-bevelhebber van de kuste Malabaar Kanara en
Wingurla overleden den 27 November A. 1696 out 38 iaren
2 maanden 5 dagen.
On the roverse of this stone is the inscription " Esta sepulture e de
Francisco Roiz Milao e de sous erdeiros faleceo 15 de Maio 1560
o do oennao Lopez Milao faleceo 24 de Jan. Ao de 1565/* The
slab had been turned and cut to make it tit the Dutchman's
grave.
Hier rust me juffrouw Hester Dulcin a Van Hovingen gemaalin-
ne van den E. agtbaare Heer Commandeur Jacob de Jong
obyt den 4 December Ao 1727 out zyndo 49 iaaren 5 maan-
denen 28 dagen.
Inscription in raised letters. DoJong was Governor of Cochin from
1724 to 1731. Jacob deJong, born in Mannar, was the son
of Jacob de .long of Ter Veer and Johanna Pasque de Chavoures
of Hulot. He was commander of Galle ( and of Jaffna). His wife
Elizabeth Moorgaart died at Galle 21st Oct. 1747, aged 47
years, 5 months 1 1 days. Another wife, Anthonia van Pelt
bom at Batavia 22 March 1727, died at Jaffna 12th Oct. 1751.
Hier rust Gustaaf Wtllem Stein van Gollenesse overleden
tot Cochin den 30 Maart ao 1739 out een jaar drie maanden
en 25 dagen en Magdalena Ursula Stein van Gollenesse
overleden tot Cochin den 3 May Ao 1739 out 0 jaaren 11
maanden en 3 dagen.
Julius Valentyn Stein Van Gollenosse was Governor of Cochin from
1735 to 1743, and afterwards of Ceylon, where his initials and the
date 1749 are inscribed on the facade of the Wolfendahl Church t
Colombo. This church stands on the top of Wolfendahl hill,
the name of which is due to a mistaken transliteration of the
Cingalese Aduroupu Viduya into the Portuguese Agua da Loupe,
whence Wolvendal or Wolfendahl. He died at Batavia on 10th
January 1755 as Director-General of the Dutch Indies.
Hier onder rust ter saligen opstandige het lyk van wylen den
E. Heer Abraham Cornelis Delahaye in leven oppercoop-
man secunde en hoofdadministrateur deezes commandements
gebooren te Colombo den 27 Juny 1709 en gestorven den 5
October 1752.
De La Haye was Governor of Cochin from 1750 to 1751.
Hier order rust ter saligen opstandigen het lyk van wylon de
welgebooren Heer Reinier Van Harn in leven opperkoop-
man secunde on hoofdadministrateur dezes gouvernements
gebooren te Camj)en den 12 December 1734 oud 54 iaren 3
maanden en 4 dagen overleden den 16 Mart 1789.
TABLETS IN THE CHURCH OF ST. FRANCIS, COCHIN.
2186 28th Oct. Alfred Forbes Sealy. Rev. Alfred Forbes Sealy, M.A., of Caius College, Cam-
1894. bridge, late Director of Public Instruction in the Cochin
State and Principal of Ernakulam College for 25 years.
He was the zealous Lay Trustee and finally the beloved
Minister of this Church. Endeared to all classes of society
by his loving sympathy, he " fell on sleep " suddenly on the
first anniversary of his ordination, Sunday 28th October
1894, aged 63 years. This memorial is erected by his friends.
It is to Mr. Sealy that the preservation of the Dutch and Portuguese
tombstones of Cochin is largely due. He had the different monu-
ments collected and planted against the walls of tfee church and
careful facsimiles of the inscriptions taken.
2183
5th Oct.
1752.
Abraham Cornelis
Delahaye.
2184
16th Mar.
1789.
Reinier Van Harn.
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TABLETS IN THE CHURCH OF ST. FRANCIS, COCHIN
-cont
2186
5th April
1895.
Henry Bidbwbll
Grigg.
Henry Bidewbll Grigg, c.i.e., m.a., Oxon, Madras Civil
Service, Resident in Travancore and Cochin and for twelve
years Director of Public Instruction in the Madras Presidency,
born at Theberton, Suffolk, Juno 17th 1841 , died at Bolghotty,
Cochin, April 5th 1895.
Another tablet stands to his memory in St. Stephen's Church,
Ootacamund.
2187 30th Aug.
1784.
DUTCH CEMETERY, COCHIN.
(The gatewall bears the date Ao 1724.)
Johann Daimighen. Hier rust ter saligen opstandi ngen het lyk van weleleden
E. Heer Johann Daimighen in loovon onderkoopman en
Secrotaris van polictsie geboren to Lubeck den 11 April
1728 obiitden30 Augustus 1784.
2188
30th Nov.
1784.
Aletta Augustina
Vanspall.
2189 26th Jan. Jacob and
1787 and Krantz.
10th Jan.
1798.
2190
2191
2192
1st Mar.
1790.
2nd April
1794.
15th June
1796.
Hier leyt tor saligen opstandingen mojuffrouw Aletta Augus-
tina Thiel huisvrouw van den weloleden Heer Jan Lamber-
tus Vanspall geboren den 21 April 1760 overleden den 30
November 1784.
Vanspall was the last Dutch Governor of Cochin from 1793 to 1795.
He surrendered the town to Major Fotrio of the 77th Regiment
on the 19th October 1795. He was a native of Utrecht and
married socondly Maria Potronolla Cornelis of Cochin, December
10th, 1786. Lieutenant James Dardel, of the English Engineers,
married Margarita Potronella Vanspall, September 2nd, 1798. On
June 3, 1783, Pieter Vanspall van Utregt married Johanna Maria
Gosensoon van Cochin boide ger. On .Tan. 27, 1783, CI. Vanspall
van Utrogt married Johanna Matid de Uruyn of Ceylon.
Hier onder rust d'E. Heer Jacob Krantz van Edenburg,
Kapiteen Lieutenant en commandeur der artillcrie overleden
den 26 Januar. 1787 oud 51 iaaren 11 maanden en 12 dagen,
on syne gedopteerde dochter Maria Elizabeth Rodb van
Kolombo huysvrouw van den boekhouder Johan Gaspar
Krantz overleden 10 Jan. 1798 oud 26 iaaren 2 maanden en
19 dagen.
Jacob Wynshbimbr. Hier rust ter saligen opstandi ng het lyk van de weleleden
manhaften Heer Jacob Bernhard Wynsheimer in leven
Kaptain van militair geboren te Solsenheim den 25 November
1745, obiit den lste Maart 1790.
Maria
Johannes Van Blan-
kenberg.
Hier rust ter zaaligen opstanding het lyk van wylen den E.
Heer Johannes Van Blankenberg in leeven Kapitain ter
zee en equipagiemeester, gebooren te Nieuvliet in staats
Vlaandeeren den 18 Mai 1749 obiit den 2 April 1794.
John Adam Cellar- Piis manibus J. A. Cellarii, Ulmensis obiit 15 Junii 1796.
ius.
The Cochin articles of capitulation written in French on October
19th ,1795 were signed by J.L. Vanspall, P.J. Docan, J. A. Cellaring,
J. A. Scheidsz, Arnold Lunel and C. Vanspall. Hugh Massey
Fitzgerald married Maria Helena Cellarius, December 13th, 1801.
J. A. Scheidsz died August 2nd, 1796. On 30th Sept. 1812 Lieut.
W. Pickering, 1st Batt. 7th N.I., married Miss Elizabeth Lunel at
Palamcottah. On 13 Sept. 1820, at St. John's, Trichy., Archibald
Ewart Esq., of the Madras Medical service married Susanna
Petronella daughter of the late Arnold Lunel Esq., formerly Chief
Secretary to the Dutch Government at Cochin.
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number.
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Date.
(2)
2193 10th Sept.
1799.
2194 10th Nov.
1800.
2195 11th Feb.
1804.
2196 24th June
1807.
2197 July 1807.
2198 24th Aug.
1809.
2199 Jan. 1810.
2200 27th May
1810.
2201 11th Nov.
1810.
2202 18th Deo.
1810.
2203 2nd Dec.
1814.
2204 20th Aug.
1815.
2205
Name.
(3)
Inscription.
(4)
DUTCH CEMETERY, COCHIN — cont.
Adrian Polvliet
Dorothea Daimighen.
Cornelia Von
SEE.
OCH-
Hier rust het lyk kil en koud gebeente van wylen den Heer
Adrian Polvliet in leeven ondercoopman en gen. opper-
hoofd van Koilan en Kannanoor obiit 10 Sept. 1799.
" Here rests the corpse, the chill and cold bones of Adrian Polvliet,
junior merchant and Chief of Cannanore."
Hier rust ter zaaliger opstanding wylen de juffrouw Dorothea
Lambertina Zeisig Johan Andrios Daimighen gebooren
den 6 Nov. 1774 en obiit den 10 Nov. 1800.
The stonecutter has omitted to record her relationship with
Mr. Daimighen.
Hier rust tot zl. opstanding me juffrouw Cornelia Elisabeth
Voot huisvrouw van den welgeboron Heer C. Baren Von
Oohsee geboren den 9 Oct. 1784, overleden den 11 Feby.
1804.
Charles Holland . . (At Cochin Charles Rolland Esq.)
Daniel
Sleet.
John Read
Vanden (At Cochin, Daniel Vanden Sleet Esq.)
. . (Captain John Read in camp at Cochin of wounds received
in action on the 19th of that month.)
So REX,
Hugh Douglas.
Edmond Goodbeherb.
James Buchan
Helena Elizabeth
Muller.
Charles Biddulph . .
13th Sept.
1815 and
15th Nov.
1820.
John and Sarah Ca-
tharine Wolff.
(At Cochin Madame Sorel daughter of Sir T. A. Strange.)
(At Cochin Lieut. Hugh Douglas 17th Native Infantry.)
(Lieut. Edmond Goodbehere 2nd battalion, 18th Native
Infantry.)
(Lieut. James Buchan 14th Native Infantry.)
Toegwyd van de gedachten van Helena Elizabeth Muller
geboren den 3 July 1811 overleden den 2de December 1814.
Toegwyd. " Dedicated to tho memory of.**
Charles Biddulph, Esq., Captain of H. M. ship Volage.
He was second son of Sir Thoophillus Biddulph of Burbury
in Warwickshire and having made choice of the navy for his
profession, he was brought up under the patronage of the
late Admiral Sir Samuel Hood. Having, after a life spent
in the service of his King and country, just attained the
rank of Post Captain, he fell a martyr to a pulmonary com-
plaint caught in the execution of his duty at the early age of
28, and has left his country to deplore the loss of a most
active, zealous and excellent officer and his relations and
friends a most benevolent, truly upright and honourable
man. He died off Cochin on the 20th of August 1815.
His first cousin William, a Captain in the B.N.I., married, April
14th, 1841, the eldest daughter of Dr. Nathaniel Walliok, the well-
known Botanist and Curator of the Company's Garden at Calcutta.
Sir Samuel Hood is buried at Madras (see No. 409).
Hier rust ter zaligen opstanding de waardige overblyfzels
van de weleleden Heer en mejuffrouw Wolff, beide deug-
dzaam echtelieden. De eerste gend. gebooren den 31
Maart. 1748 overleden den 13 Sep. 1815, en de tweede gend.
Geboren den 22 Maart. 1760 en overleden den 15 Nov. 1820.
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2206 28th Aug.
1819.
2207 10th April
1821.
MALABAR DISTRICT — ccmt.
Name. Inscription.
(3) (4)
DUTCH CEMETERY, COCHIN — cont.
Isabella Wilhelmi- Isabella Wilhelmina Stewart who departed this life the
na Stewart.
George Browne
28th of August 1819 aged 34 years and 22 days.
The lady of Captain J. D. Stewart, Master attendant. (M.A1. 1820)'
(At Cochin 10th April 1821 George Browne, son of the Rev.
John Browne Falkirk.)
2208
22nd April
1824.
Arthur Frith
Leiut. -Colonel Arthur Frith, agod 57 years.
Commanding 2nd Batt. 1st N.I. He died at the Bolghotty Resi-
dency, which occupies the site of the Dutch Biergarten. On
September 11th, 1811, he married Miss Jano Ellis Kerr.
Charles Harris Esq. married Miss Frith on 30th June 1807 while
member of the Board of Revenue.
2209 1st January George Miles
1826.
(At Cochin George Mtles Esq. of Surrey formorly Captain in
the Travancore service.)
COMPOUND OF THE PORT OFFICE, PARADE ROAD.
2210 8th Aug. Simeon De Miranda. En esta sepultura iaz Simea De Miranda ff° de Fy^ de Mirada
1524. e de Dona Cezilia d' Azambuja q faleceo a 8 d' Agosto de
ISZ4. (Coat of arms.)
" In this tomb lies Simeon de Miranda, son of Francisco de Miranda
and Dona Cecilia d' Azambuja who died on the August 8th, 1524."
The oldest European tombstone in South India, brought to light
while digging the foundations of the new Port office. The
inscription is written in a crabbed character, most difficult to
read.
Sepultura do R. P. Doctor na santa theologia Manoel De
Ceabra mestre e schola nesta Santa Se e Thezoreiro Mor
apresentado. Faleceo sendo Governador Pro visor e Vigario
geral deste Bispado a 10 de Iunho de 1641.
There were four grades among Canons : Deao (Dean), Cantre, The-
soureiro Mor ( « Major), and Mestre Sohola. The deoeased was
at the time of his death Vicar- General, the Bishop being D.
Fr. Miguel da Cruz Rangel, who died in 1646. The tombstone
has been roburied , where found, under the gatewall of the Port
office. It has a very fine coat of arms with cross keys.
2212 Undated. Lobo Da Gama . . Aqui iaz nesta S. Rva Lobo Da Gama fo de Andre Da Gama.
The word before Lobo is a monogram containing the letters R.V.A.
and perhaps I. It has been read as " Reveroncia," but contains
more probably the last letters of the word " Sepultura." The
connexion of these Da Gamas with the family 0 f Vasco is not
established. Vasco Da Gama had four sons : Estevam, Viceroy
of India in 1539 ; Christoval, who commanded the Portuguese
invasion of Abyssinia in 1541 ; Pedro da Silva, Governor of
Malacca, the firm friend of Xavier ; and Alvaro d' Ataide, who
succeeded Pedro in his office. One of these four sons was the
father of Francisco, born 1566, and Viceroy in 1597 and 1622
and of Luys, Admiral of the Indies and Ambassador to the Court
of France in 1648. Paulo, Vasco's brother, was Captain of a
ship on his first expedition to Cannanore in 1497.
2211 10th June Manoel De Ceabra.
1641.
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(4)
TOMBSTONES IN THE STREETS.
There are a number of scattered tombstones used as doorsteps to houses or as platforms to wells. Eight of these slabs are-
readable. Another slab in front of the Cochin Library is illegible.
A tombstone used as a doorstep has been discovered in a lonloy farmhouse situated near to Cassiobury Park, Watford. This
stone, a fine piece of Portland, served as a doorstep leading from the dining-room to the conservatory and was lying face
downward. It has since been replaced and the tombstone is again fulfilling its somewhat singular purpose. The inscription
runs as follows " In loving memory of . . the beloved wife, etc."
2213
11th Dec.
1532.
Antonio Mbndes
2214 Oct. 1561. Maria Dabrefj
2215
11th June
1569.
2216 1573
DUARTE PAIM VELHOA.
Petrus Condissalvo.
2217
15th Jan.
1581.
2218 1593
2219 1611
Diooo Perez
Ines De Noronha
Manoel Corea
Esta sepultura e do Antonio Mendes v> do seus erdeiros que
faleceo ao onso desembro en ano 1532.
In Princes Street. The date may possibly be 1522.
Aqui iaz Maria Vaz molher que foi de Joao De Abreu falleceo
em. . . . de Outubro de 61 annos.
In Princes Street in front of Mr. Aranjo's house.
Aqui iaz Duarte Paim Velhoa que no sol de mix gloria faleceu
aos onze dias de Iunho anno de 1569
In Princes Street, Mr. Padua's house.
D.O.M.B.V.D amore et in honorem Petro Condissalvo
Lusiuino Montimorensi regio capellano quondom Vioario et
primo decano huius sacri siimmi* templi de republica
cochenen op:ime merito II1I post <?i obitum annos, capitu-
luru cochenen ox devotione posuit anno MDLXXIlI.
In Queiros Street. Capitulum 44 The Chapter of Canons/* This
atone must have come from the Church of Santa Cruz which was
consecrated as a Cathedral in 1557 by a Bull of Pope Paul IV. The
Dutch turned it into a warehouse in 1603, blocking up the windows.
Esta sepultura he de Diooo Prz o de sua molher e erdeiros a
qual molher faleceo aos 15 de Ianeiro de 81.
Near a well on the square which faces Santa Cruz High School. The
namo may be either Perez (Prz) or Fernandez (Frz).
. . . . molher e filha Dona Ines molher que foy do Dom
Iuliao De Noronha 93.
In Rose Street.
2220 Undated . ,
. . Esta sepultura de Manoel Corea e de sua molher Isabel
Botelha e do sens erdeiros ano de 1611.
In Queiros Street.
Vicente Ribeiro De Sepultura ho do Vte Ribeiro De Lima. Pede a todos por amor
Lima. de Deus que Iho rezem uma Ave Maria por sua alma.
At the well in front of Mr. Locke's house.
WHITE JEWS CEMETERY AT COCHIN.
2221
11th Sept.
1666.
Moses Aleooa
Asion alaz shel kebod arab rabbi Moses Aleooa niftar hodesh
elul ya shenad atekhu. " This is the tomb of the venerable
chief rabbi Moses Alegoa who died on the 11th of the month
Elul 5426," (corresponding to Sept. 11th 1666).
The oldest inscription in the Beth-haim or " house of life " at the
back of the Jews' quarter, Muttoncherry. The modern cemotery
is some distance beyond it and bears this inscription with trans-
lations into Malayalam and Hebrew. " This compound wall
and the shed inside were erected by Jacob Hai Ephraim Cohen
to the memory of his father Mr. Ephraim Jacob Daniel Cohen and
his sister Miriam. May their souls rest in peace. Rah an aim.
5658 A.M., 15th Sopt. 1898." All Cohens are of the tribe of Levi*,
the Sacerdotal tribe and their tombs bear the symbol of two hands
crossed in prayer. There is another tombstone of interest kept in the
lumber godown just outside the White Jews Synagogue. It rung
" Asion alaz shel kiar David bar Kiar Haim Caste el niftar belel
shelishe shenad atarsu *\ — " This is the tomb of David, son of
Haim Cast eel, who died in the night of Tuesday 5466," Com*
pare Valery'i account of the Synagogue at Leghorn.
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NELLORE DISTRICT.
Name.
(3)
Inscription.
5222 Sept. 1788. John R. Strut
2223 3rd Feb.
1794.
2224 5th Aug.
1802.
2225 26th Oct.
1807.
2226 21st April
1812.
2227 24th Jan.
1814.
2228 19th May
1815.
Andrew Read
Thomas Walcott
Mary Dalrymple
George Kippen
John Grant
Frederic Gahagan.
2229 25th Feb.
1817.
2230 17th April
1817.
2231 20th May
1817.
2232 20th Mar.
1820.
2233 8th May
1820.
5234 13th April
1821.
George Morris
John Alexander
Andrew.
Alfred Maule
George Moor
NELLORE CEMETERY.
. . (John R. Strut (4th Carnatic Battalion) killed in a duel
at Ongole.)
. . Captain Andrew Read of the Honourable East India Company's
Service, aged 40 years.
Commanding 28th Native Battalion. Possibly a brother of
Colonel Alex. Read, Collector of the Ceded Districts and con*
temporary of Sir Thomas Munro, who died at Malta, May 19,
1804.
Captain Thomas Walcott, of the Honorable Company's
Service, aged 32 years.
Of the 6th Madras Cavalry.
He joined t he Cavalry in 1790, was Ensign July 5, 1792, and Lieuten-
ant, May 7, 1799. He was invalided, December 17, 1801.
Mary Dalrymple the infant daughter of Kirby Dalrymple,
merchant.
Captain George Kippen, late of the Madras Cavalry. This
stone was erected by his widow, Mary Anne Kippen.
He married Miss Mary Anne Sealy, April 6th, 1804, at Vellore.
Cf. No. 2090.
Surgeon John Grant, Madras Army.
Frederic Gahagan, late one of the Judges of Circuit in the
Chittoor division, Nellore, aged 37 years. He lived in virtue
and he died in peace. Charity was in his heart and purity
was in his mind.
His brother Thomas Gahagan, Second Judge of the Centre Pro-
vincial Court, died at Chittoor, November 28th, 1833. They
were both sons of Terence Gahagan, Physician -General (Bee
No. 1061).
George Morris, Veterinary Surgeon, H.M. 25th Dragoons, aged
42.
J. A. Andrew, Surgeon, 18th Regt., aged 38.
He had a eon born on April 27, 1816 at Maeulipatam (Asiatic
Journal, Deo. 1816.)
Lieutenant Alfred Maule, 6th Regiment.
He joined the army in 1804 as Cadet and became Lieutenant July
17, 1805.
. . Captain George Moor.
He had a son born on June 1, 1817 (Asiatic Journal, January
1818).
He joined the army as Cadet in 1799, was Lieut. Dec. 15, 1800,
Captain Jan. 8, 1813 and was invalided Dec. 10, 1813.
Thomas Edward Captain Thomas Edward Huntley, 1st Batt. 22nd N.I.
Huntley.
He joined the array in 1799 as Cadet, was Lieut. July 15, 1800
and Captain Mar. 18, 1817. He died at Ongole.
Macduff Cordtner. Macduff Cordiner, Esq., Surgeon.
Related to He v. James Cordiner, the historian of Ceylon.
James Cordiner, son of Rev. Charles Cordiner, the Episcopal
Minister Banff, was born there in 1775. He graduated M.JL.
in 1793 at the University of Aberdeen. He arrived in 1798 as
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2235
2236
2237
2238
21st Oct.
1821.
22nd Dec.
1822.
Richard Cooke
Edward Bond
14th Sept.
1824.
23rd June
1826.
2239
2240
2241
2242
26th Mar.
1833.
21st May
1835.
2nd May
1839.
30th Sept.
1840.
2243
2244
Henry Frederick
Bowness.
J. P. Stonhouse
21st July
1841.
1st June
1849.
the Headmaster of the Male Orphan Asylum, Madras, but with-
in 10 months ho accepted a Military chaplainoy under the Govern-
ment of Fort St. George and was sent to Trincomallee in Ceylon,
where H. M's. 80th Regt, then was. In 1799 the military chap-
lain of Colombo died and he took his place. Here he remained
for 5 years. On his return home, he became minister of St.
Paul's, Aberdeen, and continued so till he died in 1836. He
wrote " A Voyage to India " and " Discipline of Ceylon.**
On 14th October 1819, Mrs. Macduff Cordiner, second daughter
of the late Thomas Arbuthnot, Esq., of Kirmunday died.
Lieutenant Richard Cooke, 14th N.I.
He joined the army in 1810, and became Lieut. 22 Oct. 1814.
Captain Edward Bond, 15th Regiment N.I.
He joined tho army in 1805 as Cadet, was Lieut. July 5, 1808 and'
Captain, Jan. 1, 1819.
Lieutenant H. F Bowness, 37th N.I., aged 34 years.
This humble tribute is erected by his afflicted widow.
See No. 2814. Ho joined the Madras Army as Cadet in 1809
and was Lieut. September 19, 1816.
John Parry Stonhouse, aged 5 years. Time robs but
bright eternity restores. To union endless on elysian shores.
J. Law, Sculp., Madras.
Son of Timothy Vansittart Stonohouse, C.S., 1816-56, who
afterwards succeeded to a Baronetcy and died in England
January 29th, 1866. He married, February 8th, 1820, Mary
Diana, daughter of Rev. G. W. Stuart. Their daughter, Diana,
married C. N. Poehin, C.S., who died at Salem, August 26th,
1870. (see. No. 2337). Sir John Brooke Stonehouse served in
Bengal from 1814 to 1830 and was Collector of Raj shay e.
Captain David Allen, formerly of the 2nd Light Cavalry.
He married Miss Louisa Smith, October 13th, 1827, at Nellore.
Ho joined the Cavalry in 1805, was Lieut. Sept. 13, 1813 and
Captain Sept. 1, 1818. He was in Dec. 20, 1825 in India.
Captain Thomas Eman, H.M. 45th Regt., aged 31 years.
Eldest son of Lieut, and Adjutant Eman of the 1st Life Guards.
Ensign Charles Murray Babington, who died suddenly
at the village of Goodoor on his route from Madras to Nellore,
aged 18 years 1 month, thus falling a victim to the climate
after a residence in it of only 23 days.
James Forbes Elliot. This tomb marks the Grave of James Forbes Elliot, Lieuten-
ant, 10th Regiment, M.N.I. , Second son of James Elliot, of
Wolfelee, in the county of Roxburgh, invalided from the
effects of severe fever contracted in the Goomsoor Com-
paign in MDCCCXXXVI and died at Nel'ore XXX
September MDCCCXL aged XXXIII.
Younger brother of Sir Walter Elliott.
George William Mackenzie, late Lieutenant in the 1st Madras
European Regiment, aged 19 years.
G. A. Smith . . . . G. A. Smith, Madras Civil Service, aged 49 years.
George Anthony Smith was Collector of the district. He married
June 25th, 1823, Miss Eugenie Bouchez of Yanam, who died
November 23rd, 1831.
David Allen
Thomas Eman
Charles Murray
Babington.
George William
Mackenzie.
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number.
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2245 19th Jan. Mary Susan Minchin. Mary Susan Minchin, daughter of James Innes Minchin and
1854. Mary his wife, born November 2nd, 1852.
Mr. Minchin, born March 12th, 1825, was the eldest son of James
Minchin, Advocate of the Supreme Court, who married October
18th, 1821, Susan, eldest daughter of Mr. Peter Cherry, C.S.(see
No. 1594). His father's first wife was a Miss Innes. Mr. Minchin
was in the Civil Service from 1844 to 1873, where his last posts
were Resident in Travancoro and Acting Chief Secretary to
Government. He was a renowned chess player and after his
retirement was for many yoars Honorary Secretary of the St.
George's Chess Club, where ho was the companion-in-arms of
Zukertort, Blackburne and Steinitz. Two of his own games will
be found in H.E. Bird's ' * Collection of masterpieces," and his
book of the 44 International London Tournament of 1883 "
(which he entirely managed) is a standard work. He translated
Dante's Divine Comedy verse for verse into terza rima, and was
a Latin and Greek scholar in the widest sense of the word, having
taught himself classics after his retirement from India. He
married, September 24th, 1849, at Pondicherry, Mary, daughter
of the late J. Macleod, C.S. He died at Travancore, Parkstone,
Dorset, January 19th, 1903, and desired the words 44 Scholar
Poet and chess player " to bo inscribed above his grave.
2246 12th July Antoinette Ratliff. Antoinette Catherine Ratliff, the pure-minded, devoted
1854.
and dearly prized wife of John Ratliff, C.S., aged 25 years.
Never was memory more hallowed by sterling virtues.
Her husband subsequently changed the spelling of his name to
RatclifTe. He died in England, May 18th, 1877. His first wife
Elizabeth Clementina, died at Waltair, June 16th, 1846.
2247
10th Aug.
1854.
John MoTaooart
John McTagoart, of the town of Ayr, N.B., who died at
Davarapally in this district, aged 29 years. This last tribute
of affection is erected by his friends in this country, whose
esteem he had won by the constant exhibition of the qualities
of a liberal English Gentleman.
2248
2nd April
1859.
Caroline Elton
Caroline Elizabeth Elton, the deeply beloved and attached
wife of F. B. Elton, M.C.S., in the 36th year of her age.
Frederick Bayard Elton married, September 18th, 1843, the daughter
of Baron Albedhyll of Cochin. Another Miss von Albedhyll
married, March 28th, 1809, Captain John Carter of the 34th Foot.
Baron Carel Ludovic von Albedhyll married Maria Amelia do
Croix.
F. B. Elton's first wife, mother of Chas. I. Elton, was Mary, daugh-
ter of Sir C. A. Elton of Clevedon.
2249
11th Oct.
1874.
Lewis Albert Sayce.
Lewis Albert Sayce, P.W.D., born in Hereford, England,
died in peace, aged 34 years.
2250
3rd July
1875.
Joseph Smith
vol. n— -25
Joseph Smith, aged 55 years, 5 months and 25 days.
Ordained to lose the partner of my breast,
Whose virtues warmed me and whose honesty blest,
But yet remembering that the parting sigh
Appoints the just to slumber, not to die,
The starting tear I checked and kissed the rod
And not to earth restore him but to Qod.
These lines (much misquoted) are from the epitaph written by
Lord Palmerston, father of the Premier, on his wife's tomb in
Romsey Abbey Church.
194
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Serial
number.
(1)
Date
(2)
2251 3rd June
1775.
2252 26th Oct.
1779.
Name. Inscription.
(3) (4)
* ONGOLE CEMETERY.
Alexander Boused. Alexander Boused.
Matthias Calvert . .
2253 17th Aug.
1792.
2254 14th Oct.
1794.
22C5 1^ Oct.
1840.
Matthias Calvert, an excellent officer and a good man, who
died on the publick service, aged 45 years. This humble
tribute is paid by his disconsolate widow. The affectionate
husband and the sincere friend in him was happily blended.
Hero of the successful defence of the roek fort at Amboor against
Hyder, November 14th, to December tfth, 17fl7. He married
Mrs. Catherine Williamson, January 18th, 1703, when a Liout.
in H.M. 89th Rcgt. (vide Dodwcll'a List).
John Erskine .. [John Erskine, Esq., Collector of Ongole and Palnaud coun-
tries j .
The tombstone has gone. Urquhart records the name with the
remark that he died on Friday at the topes near Ongole."
Ho was the eldest son of James Erskine of Cardroas, who was
born in 1732 and died March 27, 1802, Ho married on April 22,
1762, Lady Christian Bruce, second daughter of William, eighth
Earl of Kincardine, who died May 28, 1810. John Erskine married
on December 6, 1787, Maria Coleman (poo No. 1429) and had two
daughters, Charlotte and Maria who died unmarried. His brothers
were Col. Charles of the 92nd Foot, mortally wounded near
Alexandria and died March 13. 1801 ; David of Cardross born
Jan. 10, 1772, married Sept. 5, 1K03, Keith, daughter of John, 11th
Lord Elphinstone and died Nov. 28, 1847 ; James, Lieut. R.N.
perished on board the Queen Charlotte off Leghorn March 17,
1800: William born 1780, Major 71st Foot and died April 1,
1805.
Thomas Knox . . Captain Thomas Knox, Commander of the 10th Battalion
Native Infantry and of this place. Esteemed by all who
knew him during a period of 24 years' meritorious service,
and as an honest man justly regretted.
Perhaps a relation of the 44 truly gallant Major Ranfurlie Knox "
originally a Madras officer, who died January 28th, 1764, aged
34, and lies buried in the Judgo's compound, Bankipore.
He joined the army as Cadet in 17(59, was Lieut. April 27, 1775
and Captain April IT, 1783.
One Mrs. Knox, wife of Dr. Knox, aged 74 years, died at Calcutta.
She was the last of those who survived the horrid scene of the
Black-hole in 175H, whon she was 24 years of age. (Asiatic Journal,
July 181f>j.
George William Captain George William Moore, 3rd Regiment, Light Jnfan-
Moore try, who diod at Tungatur and was huried at Ongole.
Tungatur is 12 miles south of Ongole, on the trunk road from
Madras to Ganjam.
* Now in the Guntur Distriot.
195
NILGIRI DISTRICT.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
Name.
Inscription.
(2) (3) (4)
ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH AND CEMETERY, 00TACAMUN1).
Mr. Marmaduke Lawaon, late Government Botanist, was a great lovor of the Nilgiris and in a letter quoted by ir M. E. Grant
Duff in his " Notes from a Diary " (1881-8tf) wrote : '* 1 cannot understand why English people, who live out here, should
always be wanting to rush from a lovely place like Ootacamund to spend their winters in the Cimmerian smoke of London,
Leeds and Liverpool. The climate of Ootacamund is pleasanter and more hoalthy than any other in the whole world. The
work people havo to do out here is very little and very un irksome. The hunting, to judge from the number of limbs which
are broken every year, is far better than anything that can be got in England. For sport, there are always plenty of crown
and sambur to kill : and when everything fails, the place possesses the prettiest of churchyards." Dodabetta is 8,762 ft. high.
The foundation stone of St. Stephen's Church was laid on 23rd April 1829, the birthday of George IV (vide a large tablet in
the porch). Materials such as teak timber of the Lai Bagh Palace at Seringapa tain were used for construction. The
Church was consecrated by Bishop Turner, Bishop of Calcutta on November 5, 1830 and was called after Mr. Stephen
Lushington. It was finished and opened for divine service on Easter Day 1831. It was dedicated to God in honour of
St. Stephen. It was generally understood locally that this particular choice of a patron saint involved an inoffensive
reforence to the founder (Penny's Church in Madras, Volume II, pairo 321). Captain./. J. Underwood of the Madras Engi-
neers was the architect. The cemetery was closed in 1881.
2256
24th April
1825.
William Mac Donald
Robertson .
2257
7th June Edward Armytage.
1830.
2258 8th Sept. Lady Harriet
1830. Elizabeth
Rumbold.
2259 21st Sept. William Newmarch.
1830.
2260 1st June Samuel Smith
1831.
2261 30th Oct. Hildebrand Gordon
1831. Oakes.
Major W. M. Robertson, iate 15th Regiment N.I., who died
24th April 1825, and whose remains lie interred in the burying
ground attached to Stone House, aged about 42 years.
He is mentioned in Welsh's Reminiscences, Vol. 11, p. 215. He
joined the army in 1798 as Cadet, whh Liout. February 19, 1800,
Captain, May 22, 1807 and Major May 1, 1824.
In a wood near this place lie the remains of Lieut. Edward
Armytage of the 6th Light Cavalry, aged 30. The officers
of his Regiment placed this tablet to his memory.
He joinod the Cavalry in 1821 and was Lieut. May 20, 1824.
Sacred to the memory of the Honorable Harriet Elizabeth '
Rumbold, the beloved wife of Sir Willtam Rumbold, Bart.,
who departed this life September 8th 1830 in her fortieth
year, leaving a husband and six children to mourn for the
loss of an angelic being, in whom all those qualities which
inspire the purest affection and admiration were united with
every feminine virtue.
Sir W. Rumbold, third Baronet, was grandson of Thomas Rumbold,
Governor of Madras, 1778-80. He was a partner in the cele-
brated firm of Rumbold and Palmer and died at Hyderabad,
August 24th, 1833. His wife was second daughter and co-heiress
of Thomas Boothby, Lord Raincliffe, and a ward of the flint
Marquess of Hastings. They were married July 1800. Thi»
tablet is near the lectern. (See No. 900).
William Newmarch, late Major in
Cavalry, aged 42 years.
He married Miss Mary Lyster, February 20th, 1821.
Samuel Smith, Esq., late Zillah Judge of Malabar on this
establishment, aged 41 years.
He married Miss Eliza Annesloy, April 1 8th, 1827. James Aunealey
Surgeon married Miss Catherine Oliver March 14, 1809 at Secun-
derabad. He was Assistant Surgeon in 1799 and retirod January
18,1838 as member of the Medical Board. F.R.S. 30th January
1840. He was knighted 13 May 1844 and died at Florence 14th
Decemberl847. (See No. 422).
Hildebrand Gordon Oakes, Esq., of the Bombay Civil Ser-
vice, son of the late Lieutenant- General Sir Henry Oakes
Bart., aged 34 years.
His widow married in 1843 Lieutenant-Colonel J. R. Morse, of the
1st Bombay European Regiment. He was the nephew of Lieu-
tenant-General Sir Hildebrand Oakes, G.C.B., Chief Civil Commit*
tioxxer and Commander-in-Chief at Malta, who was created a
baronet on November 2nd, 1813. Sir Henry Oakes, the second
baronet, was also a Lieutenant-General in the army. No less
the 7th Regt,, Light
VOL. II— 25A
196
NILGIRI DISTRICT — cont.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH AND CEMETERY, OOTACAMUND — cont.
than four Oakes were in the Madras Civil 8ervioe : Thomas
(1770-1806), Thomas Alexander (1802-1840), Henry Robert (1804-
1820) and Charles Edward (1822-1837). Henry Robert Oakes
married Eliza, daughter of Charles Maretone on January 1,
1816 (Asiatic Journal, August 1816). His wife, Eliza Georgina,
died at Madras Nov. 12, 1818, aged 25 (Cathedral Cemetery).
[H. T. Oakes, Esq., oldest son of Lieutenant- General Oakes
married May 1, 1817 Frances Jane fifth daughter of W. Douglas,
Esq., of Sloane Street, ChelseaJ. Heniy Oakes, M.C.S., married
at Madras Feb. 16, 1820 Harriet daughter of the late Captain
Ewen Macdonald of Gr i mi nish.
2262 7th Jan. William Sawyer . . Rev. William Sawyer, Chaplain, Madras Establishment,
1 832 . a>ged 35 years .
First Chaplain of Ootacamund. He was born in 1707 in Yorkshire.
He came to Madras as a C.M.S. Missionary in 1822 with his wife.
He was appointed a Company's Chaplain in 1830. He was Chap-
lain to Bishop of Calcutta, during his tour and accompanied
him to Ooty. in 1830. Bishop Turner left him in charge.
2263 13th May George Henry Mit- Captain George Henry Mitford Dalby, Bengal Native
1834. ford Dalby. Infantry, aged 32 years.
Assistant Secretary to Government in the Military Department.
His is the only Madras tomb recorded in the Bengal Obituary.
He joinod the Bengal army as Cadet in 1819, was Lieutenant
July 11, 1823 and Captain, March 17, 1830.
2264 29th Jan. William Fitz Wil- William Fitz Wtluam (VCallaghan, Captain H. M.'s 11th
1836 liam O'Callaohan. Regiment of Foot and second son of Viscount Lismore of
Shanbally in the County of Tipperary, aged 26 years.
The title became extinct on the death of the second Viscount Lismore
(the deceased's brother), October 29th, 1898.
22n5 2nd Sept. William Garrard . . (Colonel William Garbard of the Engineers died at Ootaca-
1836. mund September 2, 1836.)
He is mentioned in Elers' memoirs, p, 176. He joined the army in
1790. He was Lieutenant January 1, 1803, Captain September
26, 1811, Lieutenant Colonel April 1, 1825, Brevet Colonel
December 1, 1829.
2266 20th Aug. Charles Edward Charles Edward Oakes, Esq., Madras Civil Service, born
1837, Oakes. 2nd January 1805.
Son of Thomas Oakes, C. S., 1770-1805, who married Mary Lucy
Gahagan, March 31st, 1803 (see No. 1061). Brother of T. A.
Oakes.
2267 Wth June Carmina Gouoh Carmina, wife of Lieut.-Col. J. B. Gouoh, C. B., 3rd Light
1841. Dragoons, aged 19 years, leaving an only child Thomas
Cairnes, aged 12 days.
Daughter of Charles Hutching of Calcutta. Her husband, a nephew
of Lord Gough, afterwards became Sir J. B. Gough, G.C.B.
2268 2nd Jan. Robert Herries Erected by those brother officers with whom he served in
1842. Young. Sinde, to the memory of Lieutenant Robert Herries Young,
2nd Grenadier Regiment, Bombay Native Infantry, who
died of fever contracted at Kotra in Kuchee, on the 2nd
January 1842, aged 29 years.
'197
NILGIRI DISTRICT— con*.
Serial Date. Name. Insoripuon.
number.
(1) <2) O) (4)
ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH AND CEMETERY, OOTACAMUND-cow<.
2*9 27th Feb. Jamks Wahab .. Major-General James Wahab a B. of the Madras Army
\ M2 a g ed 57 y ears - He was a km(1 and affectl0nate father, a
generous husband, a gallant and zealous soldier, was actively
employed in all the principal campaigns during a service
of 42 years, and received approbation and honor from the
Government he had well served. This monument is erected
as a tribute of affection by his widow Louisa.
Son of General George Wahab (No. 300 ). He, while Lieutenant
in 17th N.I., married Miss Louisa Lascclles (Lasalles), October
5th, 1807, who died at Bangalore, January 30th, 1863. See No.
2309.
2270 5th Mar Edward Eyre Ward. Edward Eyre Ward, Esq., late of the Madras Civil Service,
1843 ' who died on the 5th March 1843, aged 27 yearS "
He joined as a writer in 1834.
2271 11th Aug. William Adam Hous- William Adam Houston, Esq., Cornet in the 4th Light Caval-
1846. ton. ry, aged 22 years.
2272 29th May George James Casa- George James Casamajor, Esq., M. C. S., who died at Kayty
1849. major. on 29th May 1849, aged 57 years.
He joined an a writer in 1812.
2273 10th Nov. Elizabeth Farring- Elizabeth, daughter of the late Sir Henry M. Farrington
1849. ton. Bart., aged 32 years.
Lieutenant-Colonol Sir Henry Maturin Farrington, third baronet,
was four times married. The lady here buried was the
child of his third wife. The sixth baronet Henry
Anthony born 1st Oct. 1871 was an Assistant Conservator of
Forests in Bengal. He joined service on 29th Nov. 1894.
Retired as Chief Conservator, Central Provinces, in Oct. 1926.
He married in 1906 Dorothy, daughter of Frank Farrington, Esq.
Charles Henry Farrington, grandson of the 1st Baronet Sir Anthony
Farrington was the 2nd Baronet. He was born 26th September
1794, died in India unmarried on 26th March 1828. He was in
the 31st Regiment. He died of consumption on his way to
Landour (near Dehra Dun) where Captain G.C. Mundy, A.D.C.,
saw his newly made grave April 1828. " In this romantic spot
surrounded by trees and overhung with black rocks a monument
is to be erected to his memory," page 91 of his Journal of a Tour
in India (John Murray 1858). He was succeeded by his uncle
Henry Maturin who married first 6th September 1802 Clarissa
Claringbole, no issue : 2ndly 5th October 1805 Laura Maria
daughter of Charles Bromley, of Madras (who died 15th Decern,
bor 1808) by whom he had a daughter Laura Elizabeth who
married 22 February 1832 Rev. Thomas Edward Allen who died
a chaplain in the Bengal service 28 March 1841 : 3rdly on
18th July 1810 Jane daughter of Roger Curry who died 8 October
1828: 4thly 6th February 1834 Susanna, daughter of Robert
Kekewich and he died 4 October in that year.
2274 21st Sept Lauderdale Hay Enaign Lauderdale Hay, 39th Regiment, M. N. I., son of
lgfil Rear Admiral Hay and Mary Stewart, his wife, born at
Belton East Lothian N. B., 31st October 1829, died 21st
September 1851.
Admiral Hay (d. 1857) was a great grandson of the first Marquess of
Tweedale. Another eon David, a Lieutenant in the B.N.I.,
died Juno 6th, 1858. The Tweedale family has many connexions
with India. The tenth Marquess was formerly in the B.C.S.,
and subsequently in Parliament. The eighth Marquess, a Field
Marshal, was Governor of Madras from 1842 to 1848.
198
NILGIRI DISTRICT — cont.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH AND CEMETERY, OOTACAMUND— cowf.
2275 10th July Lucie Bromley. Lucie, second daughter of Major-General Webber of Buckland
1852. House, county Devon and Lucie, his wife, who departed
this life suddenly on the 10 July 1852, at her residence
Summerland, near Kottigerry, aged 34 years. She married
at St. Stephens*, Ootacamund, 7th November 1843, Thomas,
5th son of Sir Robert Howe Bromley of Stoke Hall Newark,
Nottinghamshire, Baronet and by him had four children,
one of whom and one by a former marriage survive to mourn
with their afflicted father her untimely end and irreparable
loss.
Colonel Webber 0th N.I., of Buckland House, Braunton, married
at Bangalore, February 1 8th, 1810, Miss Elizabeth Luey L'Ecolier.
Major General Henry Webber died Aug. 8, 1833 in England.
Sir Robert Howe Bromley (1778-1857) was the third baronet
and an admiral of the White. His son Thomas was an officer in
the Bombay Army, and retired in 18. r ). f ) after thirteen years'
service with the rank of Lieutenant. On the 17th June 1906, at
17, Rutland Court, Georgina Ellen, widow of the late Sir Henry
Bromley, fourth Baronet, died aged 79. On the 13th May 1906
at Govt. House, St. Christopher, West Indies, Sir Robert
Bromley, Bart, of Stoke, Newark, administrator of St. Christopher
and Nevis died aged 32. Lieut. N. B. Bromley of the artillery
married Miss Ann Morgan (in Bengal) Nov. 1806. 2nd Lieut.
R.Bromley of the artillery died at Goomsoor (killed in aetion)
March f>, 1836. (See No. 2842.)
2270 2nd Sept. David Ooilvy Wed- Lieutenant David Ogilvy Wedderburn, 37th Grenadiers,
1853. derburn. aged 27 years.
He was killed by an elex>hant at Tippacaudoo, 22 miles from Ootaca-
mund on tho Ghaut road to Mysore. Tho encounter is described
in PolJok's " Fifty years Reminiscences of India p. 171-2. See
also Leveson. Ho whs the Brother of James Alex. Wedderburn,
M.C.S., born 1825. died at Chingleput 1854. (Soe No. J 434.)
2277 20th Nov. Robert Lushington Robert Lushington Reilly, Captain in the 10th Regt. N. I.
1853. Reilly. and Assistant Executive Engineer, NeilgherryBarracks, aged
36 years.
See No. 1367.
2278 4th April William Staveley . . Lieutenant-General Wtlliam Staveley, C. B., Colonel of
1854. Her Majesty's 94th Regiment, and Commander-in-Chief
of the Madras Army, who died at Tippacaudoo, the 4th
day of April 1854, aged 71 y ears.
General Staveley died of heart disease in a transit. [Transit— a kind
of Jaunting car that plies for hire between Coonoor and Ootaca-
mund and elsewhere, e.g., TravaneoreJ. Born at York on July
29, 1784, he was the son of William Stavely of that city and
Henrietta Henderson. Ho was on tho headquarters staff at
Waterloo. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief at Madras on
October 27th, 1X53. He succeeded Lieutenant-General Sir
Richard Armstrong, K.C.B., and the next permanent incumbent
of the office was Lieutenant-General the Hon. George Anson,,
who was subsequently Commander-in-Chief in India and died of
cholera in the mutiny year, May 27th, 1857. Col. William
Stavely, C.B., married at Boulogne 27th Jan. 1817 Sarah, eldest
daughtor of T, Mathor, Esq. The dictionary of national bio-
graphy gives a brief sketch of his life. His reminiscences were
printed for private circulation in 1806.
2279 16th Dec. Henry Handcock . . Captain the Honorable Henry Handcock, H. M.'s 44th Regi-
1858. ment and A.D.C. to Lord Harris, Governor of Madras, who
was killed near this place by a tiger in the 24th year of hi&
age. Erected by his sorrowing father, Lord Castiemaine.
He was the third son of the third baron.
2280 30th June Lewis Wentworth Major-General Lewis Wentwoeth Watson, Colonel of the
1859. Watson. 7th Regiment M.N.I., aged 68 years and 6 months.
199
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number.
a)
Date.
NILGIRI DISTRICT — cont.
Name.
Inscription.
(2) (3) (4)
ST. STEPHEN S CHURCH AND CEMETERY, OOTACAMUND— cont.
2281
5th Nov.
1860.
Sib Henby Davison.
2282
2283
2284
29th April
1863.
29th July
1864.
6th May
1866.
James Ouchtbblony.
William
Wapshabe.
Henry
Caroline Elizabeth,
Caroline Ethel
and Chables
Havelock.
The Honorable Sib Henby Davison, Knight, sometime H.M.'s
Puisne Justice at Madras, then Chief Justice of Bombay and
afterwards and until his decease Chief Justice of Madias.
He died at Ootacamund on the 5th of November 1860 in the
55th year of his age, deeply and deservedly regretted by
a large circle of friends in England and India, who have
erected this monument and also a tablet in the church to his
memory in token of their affection. His body lies beneath
this stone.
Fourth non of Thomas Davison of Scotland, Bride's Lond. arm St.
Alban Hall, 23, Oct. 1823, aged 18; Scholar Trinity 1824, B.A.,
) 829, M.A., 1 834 ; Barrister I.T., 1834. The dedication of Thacker-
ay's Virginians runs as follows : — " To Sir Henry Davison, Chief
Justice of Madras, this book is inscribed by an affectionate old
friend, London, September 7th, 1859." Ootacamund twenty-five
years earlier was the residence of Macaulay, who lived at Wood-
cock Hall during the months of July and August 1834. He
dilates more than once upon " his cottage buried in laburnums,
or something very liko them, and geraniums which grow in the
open air." The scenery of the Nilgiris he likened to " the vegeta-
tion of Windsor Forest or Blenheim spread over the mountains of
Cumberland."
Lieut. -Col. James Ouchteblony, Royal (Madras) Engineers,
aged 50 years, who died of Jungle fever brought on by ex-
posure while in the execution of his duty. His brother
officers have erected this tablet in remembrance of a dis-
tinguished member of their corps.
Major William Henby Wapshabe, aged 50 years. A true
friend, a just magistrate, a good man, he gained during a
residenco of several years in this place, the universal esteem
and affection, of which this stone is an inadequate record.
In loving memory of Cabolink Elizabeth Havelock, the
wife of Lieut. -Colonel William Havelock, K.H., late H.M.'s
14th Light Dragoons, a resident at Ootacamund for the
last 15 years of her life. She was a faithful worshipper in
this church, an excellent wife, a good, kind and judicious
mother. Highly respected by all who knew her, she ended
a blameless life on the 6th May 1866, in her 62nd year. A
tribute of their love and esteem, this tablet is placed here
by her sons, Colonel Acton Chaplin Havelock and Sir Arthur
Elibank Havelock, G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E. Also in memory
of Cabolink Ethel and Chables Havelock, children
of the above, who entered into their rest and are also interre
at Ootacamund.
Colonel William Havelock, the elder brother of Sir Henry Havelock,
was wounded at the battle of Waterloo, where he acted as Aid-de -
Camp to Baron Alten, and fell at the head of his regiment, the 14th
Light Dragoons, in their desperato but successful charge on the
Sikh Army at Ramnugger, November 22nd, 1848. His wife was
the daughter of Acton Chaplin. Their eldest son, William
Henry, was in the Bombay Civil Service and died November
1st, 1876. The second, Colonel Acton Chaplin Havelock, married
the second daughter of General Sir Anthony Stranshatn, G.C.B
Sir Arthur Havelock, the third son, was Governor and Commander-
in-Chief of the West African Settlements, 1881-84, Governor and
Commander-in-Chief of Trinidad, 1884-85, Governor of Natal,
1885-89, Governor of Ceylon, 1890-95, and Governor of Madras,
1895-1900. He was Governor of Tasmania from 1901*1904. He
uied 25th June 1908.
200
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
NILGIRI DISTRICT — cent.
Name.
Inscription.
(2) (3) (4)
ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH AND CEMETERY, OOTACAMUND — cont.
2285 12th Mar. William Pitt Major-General William Pitt MacDonald, Madras Staff
1867. MacDonald. Corps, aged 62 years, 11 months and 7 days.
A prominent Freemason. He married, November 15th, 1824,
Charlotte, daughter of Andrew Scott, M.O.S. (No. 566).
2286
6th June
1872.
James Wilkinson
Bbeeks.
2287
8th June
1876.
William
McIvor.
Graham
2288 10th Nov.
1879.
John Babinoton
2289
2290
6tb Jan.
1884.
14th June
1889.
James Peyton
Andrew Ernest Rus-
sell.
2291
20th Nov.
1889.
Annie Hughes Hal-
LETT.
2392
12th June
1893.
Richard
Preston.
William
Sacred to the memory of James Wilkinson Breeks, Com-
missioner of the Nilgherries, aged 42 years. This stone is
placed upon his grave by his friends in the Madras Civil
Service, who loved and honoured him living, and who deeply
lament his early death.
Private Secretary to Sir William Denison when acting Governor-
General in 1863. A posthumous work of considerable merit on
the tribeH and sepulchral monuments of the Nilgiris was published
in 1873 under the editorship of his widow, who was a daughter of
Sir W. Denison. A sister-in-law of Breeks was married to George
Moore, the merchant and philanthropist referred to in Smiles*
41 Self Help/' page 368, 1878 edition. See No. 2751.
William Graham McIvor, Superintendent of the Government
Cinchona Plantations, Neilgherries, aged 51 years. This
monument and also the new chancel to the church have
been erected in affectionate remembrance by his " little
wife."
His widow Anne was eldest daughter of Colonel Edwards of Isycoed
Denbighshire.
McIvor was a skilled gardener from Kew who came out to Ooty.
from England in 1848 (Sir Fredrick Price History of Ootaoa-
mund, page 51).
Colonel John Babington, retired, Royal (late Madras) Artil-
lery aged 69 years. He was a talented and good-hearted
man. Raised to his memory by Major-General George
Godfrey Pearse, C.B., Royal Artillery, who served under him
as a subaltern.
On the 5th December 1905, at Soraba, Shanklin, Isle of Wight,
General George Godfrey Pearse, C.B., Colonel-Commandant,
Royal Horse Artillery, aged 78, died.
Major James Peyton, late Commandant of the 5th Regiment,
Hyderabad Contingent , and for many years a Resident of this
place, aged 84 years and 6 days.
Andrew Ernest Russell, Captain, Royal Artillery, born 12th
March 1856, died when Aid-de-Camp to the Commander-in-
Chief, Madras Army.
He was A.D.C. to Sir Charles Arbuthnot. He was third son of
A. Russell of Cheltenham. He was killed by an accident on the
race course.
Annie, wife of Lieut.-Colonel Wyndham Hughes Hallett,
last Judge Advocate-General of the Madras Army. She
was born May 31st, 1857, and after enduring years of grie-
vous suffering with a rare courage, cheerfulness and patience,
she died in London Nov. 20th, 1889, and was buried in
the parish churchyard of Hove, Sussex.
Richard William Preston, Captain, 1st Bombay Grenadiers,
born 19th Feb. 1857, drowned in the Kroormund river,
while out hunting with the Ootaeamund hounds.
Second son of Martin Inett Preston of Nottingham.
201
NILGIRI DISTRICT— cont.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
ST. THOMAS' CEMETERY, OOTACAMUND.
2293 24th May William Patrick In memory of the Right Honorable William Patrick Adam
1881. Adam. of Blair Adam, N.B., Governor of the Presidency of Fort
St. George, died at Ootacamund, May 24th, 1881, aged 57
years. Erected by order of Government.
A handsome obelisk of Aberdeen granite. At Charing Cross,
Ootacamund, is a public fountain to his memory. He was the
son of Admiral Sir Charles Adam, K.C.B., M.P., Naval Lord of
the Admiralty, and was born on September 14th, 1823. His
grandfather was the Right Hon. William Adam, M.P., 1774-1794,
one of the Managers of Warren Hastings' impeachment and after-
wards a Baron of the Exchequer in Scotland. One of his uncles
John Adam acted as Governor-General of India from January
to August 1823 and died at sea in 1825. Another uncle, General
Sir Frederick Adam, G.C.B. G.C.M.G., who commanded Adam's
Brigade at Waterloo, was Governor of Madras from 1832 to 1837
(see No. 471). On June 23, 1820 at Corfu Major-Genl. Sir
Frederick Adam married Signora Diamantina Pallatiano. Mr.
W. P. Adam was Private Secretary from 1853-1858 to his relative
Lord Elphinstone, when Governor of Bombay, and sat as M.P.
for Clackmannan and Kinross, 1859 to 1880. From 1874-80,
he was Chief Liberal Whip. He was first Commissioner /rf Works
from 1873-74 and again in 1880, both under the premiership of
Mr. Gladstone. On December 20th, 1880, he was appointed
Governor of Madras. He married in 1856 Emily, the daughter
of General Sir William Wyllie, G.C.B., and their eldest son
Charles Elphinstone was, on May 20th, 1882, created a baronet.
2294 2nd July Thomas Onslow . . Thomas Onslow, late Madras Civil Service, aged 70 years.
1882.
Third son of Sir Henry Onslow, second Baronet. He married,
February 26th, 1835, Elizabeth Sarah, daughter of C. Roberts,
M.C.S. (see No. 1147). His brother Denzil Onslow, M.P. for
Guildford, 1874-85, was well known in connexion with the
Tichborne case for his Advocacy of the Claimant's cause.
On April 30, 1849 at Berer, Maj. G.W. Onslow, artillery, died.
On March 8, 1854, Lt. G. W. Onslow, artillery, died at Cape
Town.
2295 28th May Francis Culling Francis Culling Eardlby Childers, Captain R.A., Brevet-
1886. Eardley Childers. Major, fifth son of the Right Hon'ble Hugh C. E. Childers,
born 3rd October 1858. In pace.
A.D.C. to Sir Herbert Macpherson, with whom he served through the
Egyptian campaign . He died of typhoid fever a few months after
arrival in India. His brother Leonard was lost in the Captain
off Finisterre, September 6th, 1870 (see No. 727).
2296 5th June Sir Frank H. Sir Frank H. Souter, Kt., C.S.I., C.I.E., who died at Ootaca-
1888. Souter. mund on the 5th June 1888, of heart disease. He was the
second son of Captain T. Souter, who saved the colors of
H.M/s 44th Regiment on the occasion of their last stand at
Gundamuck, Cabul.
Commissioner of Police in Bombay. He married in 1863 the
daughter of W. L. Cameron.
2297 9th Aug. Catherine Burrows. Catherine Smith, the beloved wife of Leonard Robert Bur*
1888. rows, Madras Civil Service.
K Mr. Burrows was for years a well-known Collector of the Nilgiris»
2298 10th Feb. Alexander James Alexander James Hadfield, Lieut.-Colonel. Madras Army,
1897. Hadfield. and Honorary A.D.C. to the Viceroy, aged 88 years.
He commanded a company of the 37th M.I., when it so greatly dis.
tinguished itself in China in 1860 and was advanced to the dignity
of a Grenadier Regiment.
2299 14th May Henry Thomas Ross. Henry Thomas Ross, Madras Civil Service, aged 48 years.
1898. Erected, with the permission of his widow, by some of his
friends.
vol. n— 26
202
NILGIRI DISTRICT— cont.
Serial
number.
(1)
Pate.
(2)
Name.
Inscription.
2300 30th May
1898.
2301 7th June
1898.
Jambs Grose
2302 22nd April
1823.
2303 8th Dee.
1829.
2304 19th May
1893.
2305 20th May
1897.
(3) <*)
ST. THOMAS' CEMETERY, OOTACAMUND — cont.
Edith Buss . . In loving memory of Dame Edith Bliss, wife of Sir Henry
Bliss, K.C.I.E., Member of Council, born Feb. 19th,
1847.
Daughter of James Wheeler of Great Cumberland Place, London.
James Grose, C.I.E., Member of Council, who died at Ootaca-
mund, aged 59 years.
(See No. 523). Son of James OroHe of Redruth, Cornwall. His
brother Rev. Thomas Hodge Grose (1846-1906) died on the 11th
Feb. 1906. He was the fourth son of James Grose. He was
educated at Manchester Grammar School and was elected scholar
of Balliol in 1864. He took the B.A. Degree in 1868, with a firit
in classics and mathematics. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1869
but was elected in 1870 to a Fellowship at Queen's College fol-
lowed by hiH appointment as tutor and lecturer in 1871. He
was ordained deacon in 1872 and became chaplain of the College
in 1874 which office he held till the end of his life. In 1897 he
was elected Registrar of tho University.
STONEHOUSE HILL CEMETERY.
Henry Harington, Cornet in the 7th Regiment Light Cavalry,
and youngest son of the late William Harington, Esq., of
the Madras Civil Service, in his 18th year.
His father died at Madras, December 14th, 1821 (No. 543).
Edward Jessop, M.D., Assistant Surgeon, 9th Regiment,
M.N.I. , aged 31 years, 7 months and 25 days.
ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY, OOTACAMUND.
Sir James Charle- In memory of His Excellency Lieutenant-General The Honour-
able Sir James Charlemagne Dormer, K.C.B., Commander-
in-Chief of the Madras Army, born 26th January 1834, died
19th May 1893— R.I.P.
Second son of the eleventh Lord Dormer. He followed a wounded
tiger into a sholah and received wounds from which he died.
His son is the thirteenth Lord Dormer. His wife was the
daughter of Archibald Alison, the historian, and one of his
daughters is married to Sir J. D. Rees, C.S., C.I.E., who was Lord
Connemara's Private Secretary.
Captain Joseph Aloysitjs Power, Knight Commander of the
Portuguese Order of Christ. Born at Waterford, Ireland,
19th March 1838. Died at Ootacamund 20th May 1897. '
Henry Harington
Edward Jessop
magne Dormer.
Joseph Aloysius
Power.
2306 30th Mar. Edward Holden
1822. Cruttenden.
2307 5th April George Phillips
1825
2308 28th May T. M. Frbrb
1848.
KOTAGTRI.
Edward Holden Cruttenden, Esq., late Zillah Judge of
Trichinopoly, in the 35th year of his age.
See No. 2721.
George Phillips, Esq., of the Madras Civil Service, aged 31
years.
He married, June 17th, 1818, Charlotte, daughter of William
Pri chard, Surgeon.
T.M.F. 1848.
Heroine of the haunted house at Kotagiri. The house called
Corseley is Mrs. Griffiths'. Hatley Frere, C.8. (1811-68), nephew
of the Right Hon. John Hookham Frere (1769-1846), marrie'd,
September 22nd, 1840. Theodora Amelia Mary, daughter of Bishop
Spencer of Madras. Hatley Frere died Nov. 3, 1868. George
John Trevor .Spencer was born Dec. 11, 1799; Bishop of
Madras 1838 to 1849; died July 16, 1866 in his 67th year;
married May 27, 1823 Harriet Theodora, third daughter of Sir
Ben am in Hobhouse. Bart, of Westbury Cottage, Glouoes-
203
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
NILGIRI DISTRICT— cont.
Name.
(3)
KOT AGIRI— cont.
Inscription.
2309
28th Sept.
1869.
Montague Dundas
Cockburn.
2310
12th Oct.
1857.
Brackley Kennett
231 1 19th May Violet Peyton
1866.
2312 9th June Mary Lilly
1868.
2313 23rd Sept. A. J. Greenlaw
1870.
tershire. He had issue —
(1) Wm. Cavendish born 19th January 1829, B.C.S.
(2) Rev. Almerio John Churchill born 23 January 1834, died in
Calcutta January 23, 1860.
(3) Theodora Amelia Maria married September 1840, Hatley
Frere, M.C.S.
(4) Susan Ann Sophia Churchill married 1840, Robt. Kerr
Hamilton, Chaplain at Madras.
(Madras Diocesan Record, May 1006, p. 251 note by C. S. Spencer
C.S. his kinsman).
Montague Dundas Cockburn, late of the Madras Civil Service^
aged 81 years.
He married Catherine Jane Lascelles at Bangalore, January 4th,
1827, who died August 30th, 1879, in her eightieth year. His
father was, in 1779, Sheriff of the county of Midlothian and after-
wards a Baron of Exchequer. See " Memorials of My Time "
by Henry Thomas Cockburn, Scotch Judge (Dn. B), brother of
M. D. Cockburn.
At Cuddalore, Catherine, wife of Montague Dundas Cockburn, Esq.,
C.S., died on March 1, 1826, (see No. 1230).
She had a son born at Cuddalore on January 21, 1816 (Asiatic
Journal, August 1816.) A son of hers, aged 4 years, died at
Cuddaloro on April 1, 1817. (Asiatic Journal, December 1817.)
Jane, wife of Mr. Cockburn, died at Calcutta, 12th January 1824,
aged 27 years and two months. (S. Park Street.)
COONOOR.
General Brackley Kennett, Colonel of the 22nd Regiment
B.N.I, born at Dorchester, Oxon, 31st July 1770, died at
Coonoor by the hand of an assassin at the age of 87.
Of the Bombay Army. Evidently a connexion of Brackley Kennett,
Lord Mayor of London, Circa 1779. He was killed at the Lodge
(now Sjr Robert Stanes') by a band of Mahomedans who asked
him money. He lived for a week and was able to identify them
all. As they came in one by one he said, '* I fought them
The Madras^ Almanac of 1868 gives 9th October 1857 as the date of
his death,
Violet, wife of Captain Peyton, 18th Hussars, and daughter of
Colonel Pringle, late Coldstream Guards, died at Wellington,
aged 26 years.
Mary, daughter of William Hodgson, D.D., Master of St.
Peter's College, Cambridge, wife of William Samuel Lilly,
of the Madras Civil Service, born 2nd April 1842, married
19th August 1862, died 9th June 1868.
Mr. Lilly retired on an invalid pension in 1872 and made a name as
a Philosophical writer.
Alexander John Greenlaw, Colonel, M.S.C. This cablet is
erected by his brethren of the craft, of which he was so dis-
tinguished a member, and by his numerous friends as a
token of their affection and esteem.
vol. n— 26a
204
SALEM DISTRICT.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
(3)
2314 21st April
1813.
2315 4th June
1818.
Charles Thomas
Ellis.
Charles Carpenter.
2316 17th Sept.
1818,
William Heath
2317 19th Jan.
1820.
0. G. Fehrszen
2318 16th Jan.
1823.
Maria Davis
2319 28th Feb.
1830.
Edward Robert
Hargrave.
Inscription.
(4)
SALEM CEMETERY.
Lieutenant Charles Thomas Ellis, of H,M/s 1st Regiment or
Royal Scots, aged 25 years 9 months and 9 days.
He married Miss Hester Topander, April 2 1st, 1 808. See No. 1713.
Charles Carpenter, Esq., of the Honourable Company's
Civil Service on the Madras Establishment, aged 44 years.
He married, May 23rd, 1805 at Mount Capper Villa near Cuddalore,
Isabella, daughter of the late Colonel Charles Fraser. (No. 1874).
He was married by H. Kerr Senior Chaplain of Madras ; Witnesses :
John Duncan and Mr. A. Fraser. Cf. The Capper Beach at Madras.
The Summer House and seats are still there and the foundations,
the garden walks, etc., still stand. It is just above the toll-gate
as you look up from the left. The new Jail Superintendent's
house is just below. Carpenter's name was originally spelt
Charpentier, and his sister Margaret Charlotte marrjed Sir Walter
Scott, December 24th, 1797. Their father was Jean Charpentier
of Lyons, a devoted royaliet during the French Revolution. Six
of Walter Scott's letters to Carpenter are reprinted in Colonel
Hastings Fraser'sLifo of his father Gen. J. S. Fraser. They date
from 1803-1814 and reference is made in them to Dr. Ley den, the
Heaths, the Dumergues and to Charles Scott, Carpenter's godson.
Mr. Carpenter left his fortune to the Scotts, his widow having
only a life interest. Sir Walter Scott's son, Sir Walter Scott,
Colonel of the 14th Hussars, died at sea, February 8th, 1847,
aged 46, and has a monument in St. Mark's Church, Bangalore (see
Nos. 409 and 933).
William Heath, son of Josiah Marshall Heath and Charlotte
Catherine Heath his wife. Born May 20th, 1818.
Mr. J. M. Heath married another daughter of Colonel Fraser, March
18th, 1816. He was a civilian and lived for many years in the
Salem Resident's house, which belongs to Mrs. Foulkes. He lost
a fortune in trying to start an iron industry at Porto Novo (see
No. 1266).
Lieutenant-Colonel Fehrszen, of H.M.'s 53rd Regiment. A
man celebrated for his learning, distinguished for his valour,
esteemed for his piety ; who was a soldier by nature, a
gentleman by birth, a friend to all, an enemy to none. He *
died at Namcul of cholera morbus, after an ineffectual struggle
of only 12 hours, at the early age of 34 years.
In February 1799 at the Cape of Good Hope, Lieut. J. Graham, 28th
Light Dragoons, was married to Mrs. Fersen.
Maria Rosalie, wife of W. D. Davis, Esq., who died in the
27th year of her age.
Daughter of Peter Boyd, merchant at Cuddalore, and widow of J. B.
Pender, Surgeon, who died August 27th, 1817. Mary Rosalia
Boyd was baptised at Tranqucbar on 23rd August 1796. Her
mother was Fanny ' Fischer, daughter of Colonel Fischer, member
of council, Tranquebar, who married Peter Boyd at Tranquebar
on 3rd March 1795. Mr. Davis married secondly, November
27th, 1828, Harriet Frances, daughter of George Lys of Madras.
She died at Palmaner, November 13th, 1842, aged 33 (see No. 472).
Edward Robert Hargrave, Esq., of the Madras Civil Service,
and 18 years Collector of the Zillah of Salem, aged 56 years.
This monument is erected by the inhabitants of Salem
in token of their love and esteem.
At Dharmapuri is the tank built by Narasier, his Sheristadar, who
during the eighteen years of Mr. Hargrave's administration
(1803 to 1820) carried on with impunity a gigantic system of fraud.
See Mr. LeFanu's 41 Salem Manual," Volume I, and Arbuthnot's
Munro, Vol. I, page 217.
At Calcutta, on Dec. 22, 1772, Mr. Edw. Smith, Writer, married
Miss Mary Hargrave. At Salem on February 4, 1807, John Rich,
Esq., Assistant Surgeon, married Miss Susan Hargrave. On 2nd
March 1809, the lady of John Rich, Esq., Assistant Surgeon, died.
205
SALEM DISTRICT— cont.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
(3)
Inscription.
(4)
SALEM CEMETERY — cont.
2320
22nd Feb.
1831.
John Harrison
Stapleton.
2321
2nd June
1831.
Thomas Robson
2322
4th Feb.
1833.
Robert Deacon
■2323 24th Mar. John Symons
1835.
Ensign John Harrison Stapleton of the 39th Regt. N.I.,
aged 20 years.
Half way up (to the Shevaroys) is a large flat rock known as Staple-
ton's Rock so named after a young officer who ascended these
mountains 30 or 40 years ago, went to sleep in the middle of the
rock, was taken up ill with sun stroke and died the next day at
Salem. (E. F. Burton's Reminiscences of Sport in S. India, p. 142.)
He joined the army as Cadet in 1826 and was ensign from November
7, 1827.
*' One J. Stapleton, Esq., died in Bengal, October 1 806.
. . Captain Thomas Robson, of the 26th Regiment Madras Native
Infantry, aged 40 years.
Probably son of F. A. Robson, C.S. (1795-1833), whose daughter
Mary married Peter Cherry, C.S., in 1801 (see No. 1053).
He joined the army as Cadet in 1806, was Lieutenant June 24,
1812 and Captain May 1, 1824.
On 28th May 1821 at Edinburgh, Capt. Robson, 16th M.N.I.,
marrried Henrietta Mackenzie, daughter "of Mr. Thos. Knox,
formerly of Firth (this must be Felix Robson as Thomas was not
a Captain till 1824).
. . Robert Deacon, Captain in the 18th N.I., aged 34 years.
He joined the army as Cadet in 1819 and was made Lieutenant May
14, 1821.
. . John Symons, Lieut, in the 18th N.I., aged 32 years.
He joined the army as Cadet in 1821 and was Lieutenant March 31,
1824.
2324
2nd May
1836.
J. M. Minto
. . John MacDonald Minto, Captain of the 5th N.I., aged 33
years.
On January 1, 1836 at Trichy. by the Rev. H. Deane, A.B. Captain
J. Macdonald Minto, 5th N.I., was married to Miss C. M. Hichens,
At Mangalore, October 14th, 1839, by the Rev. F. O. Lugard,
Capt. Beaumont, 23rd N.I., was married to C. Minto, relict of the
late Copt. .J. M. Minto.
2325 23rd, 24th Mary Ann, Emma Mary Ann Bevan, and Emma Julia and Adel, the wife and
and 25th Julia and Adel daughters of Captain Henry Bevan, of the 27th Regiment
July 1837. Bevan. Native Infantry, who died of cholera.
Captain Bevan wrote an interesting book called " Thirty years in
India, 1 * which refers in the last chapter to the sad death of bis
family at Salem.
James Glen . • James Glen, Esq., late of the Madras Medical Service.
2326
2327
11th Sept.
1837.
4th Feb.
1839.
James
Taylor.
Corbett James Corbett Taylor, of the Madras Civil Service.
Evidently son of Henry Taylor who married Miss M. A. Corbett, April
6, 1807. He married, May 16th, 1833, Fanny Wilson, second
daughter of Henry Atkinson, Surgeon, who died October 31, 1845.
He was " Sub-Collector and Joint Magistrate of that [Salem]
district."
2328
25th Mar.
1839.
Archibald Douglas.
Archibald Douglas, late Lieutenant in the Corps of Madras
Engineers.
He joined the Army in 1826*
206
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
2329 18th Aug.
1840.
2330
23rd April
1842.
1 TV*/.
X 8Xi -L/ec .
1842.
6th June
1846.
2333
10th June
1848..
2334
10th July
loui.
2335
28th April
loOo.
2336
8th Nov.
1868.
2337
26th Aug.
1870.
2338
21st Feb.
1873.
2339
27th Oct.
1873.
2340
8th Feb.
1846.
2341
21st Mar.
1846.
James Moreton
Walhouse.
SALEM DISTRICT— cont.
Name.
(3)
SALEM CEMETERY — cont.
James Morbton Walhouse.
Inscription.
Eugene Chattelier.
Frederick Mole
Late of the Madras European Regiment. Mr. Moreton John Wal-
house, C.S., 1843-72, was for a long time Judge of Mangalore.
He contributed to Frasor's Magazine in 1875, an excellent descrip-
tion of the South Canara dstrict, which is reprinted in Mr. Stur.
rock's Manual.
On 12th December 1820 at Wolverhampton the Hon. Captain
Joseelyne Percy, R.N., 2nd son of the Earl of Beverley, wa»-
married to Sophia Elizabeth, 3rd daughter of Moreton Walhouse,
Esq., Mathorn in Staffordshire.
Eugene Chattelier, Merchant, aged 30 years 1 month and &
days.
Frederick Mole, Esq., Madras Civil Service, aged 30 years.
Archibald Hamil- Archibald Hamilton, Madras Civil Service, aged 27 years.
TON.
He died at the Shervaroy Hills.
Duncan Cadenhead. D. Cadenhead, Esq., aged 38 years.
Nicholas Fenwick
Johnson.
Henry Stewart Hill.
Montague Edwin
Foord.
Brother of John Cadenhead, Surgeon. Dr. John Cadenhead is
referred to in footnote of Kayos* History of tho East India
Company, p. 518.
Major-General Nicholas Fenwick Johnson, aged 58 years.
Henry Stewart Hill, Lieutenant in the Madras Staff Corps >
aged 28 years. The beloved of all who knew him.
Montague Edwin Foord, Captain Madras- Staff t Corps (Sappers
and Miners), fourth son of Colonel H. S. Foord, Madras
Artillery, aged 32 years 8 months and 8 days.
Shot accidentally by his own shikari who was trying to save him from
a bear. Colonol Foord died at Secunderabad, November 4th,
1857, aged 50, and his wife Myra Ann at St. Thomas' Mount,.
August 16th, 1849, aged 49. An Edward Bromley Foord, C.S.,
1842-76, was Judge of Chingloput in tho seventies.
Charles Norman Pochin, of the Madras Civil Service, born
1826 at Barkby, Leicestershire.
He marriod firstly Diana Poohin, daughter of Sir Timothy Vansittart
Stonehouse, Bart., C.S., and secondly Mias Anne *Parko. Diana
Pochin died at Aroot in April 1857.
James Fischer, born 8th June 1832.
Son of T. J. Fischer, 1808-64. He married Leila Fischer, 1840-61
daughter of George Fischer of Madura (No. 2013).
Edward Frederick Elliot, Madras Civil Service, Judge of
Salem, aged 39 years 4 months and 21 days.
ADAMANCOTTAH.
Mrs. Therezia Younker, wife of the late Mr. John Younker,
aged 57 years.
Mr. John Younker was in the service of the S.P.C.K., and died at
Negapatam, January 23rd, 1840, aged 55 years.
. Another Rev. A. Younker died at Salem on May 31, 1875, aged 61
yean.
John William Captain J. W. Rumsby, 44th Regiment Native Infantry, aged
Rumsey. 40 years.
There is a monument to his memory in St. John's Church, Trichi-
nopoly (No. 2724).
Charles Norman
Pochin.
James Fischer
Edward Frederick
Elliot.
Therezia Younker.
207
SALEM DISTRICT— can*.
Serial
number.
(1)
2342
Date.
(2)
23rd Nov.
1795.
Name.
(3)
Anthony Bealb
Inscription.
(4)
ATTUR.
2343
6th May
1799.
John Murray
2344
5th Feb.
1828.
Jane Coyle
2345 16th Oct. James Ives
1819.
. [Captain Anthony Be ale, Commandant of the 24th Battalion
of Coast Native Infantry.]
The tomb is no longer in existence. Urquhart mentions Beale and
prints an elegy of thirteen stanzas to his memory. From the
words " Beale, firm asserter of our rights, is dead " it seems pro-
bable that he took a prominent part in the 44 half batta " contro-
versy of 1784.
. . John Murray, Lieutenant-Colonel, Commander of the Is
Regiment of Native Cavalry in the Honourable East India
Company's Service, aged 50 years.
According to the Asiatic Annual Register 41 he died at Ahtoor on
his way from the grand army to the coast, for the recovery of a
constitution worn out in the service of his country." On June
27th, 1789, he married Miss Ann Chaso, who died December 30th,
1811, aged 56 and was buried in Kensington church. Her sister
Rebecca married Henry Sewoll (No. 243).
Jane, wife of Captain H. Coyle, 28th N.I., interred at Salem
Daughter of William Thompson, M.D., Wexford, Ireland (see No .
484)
Henry Coyle joined the army in 1804, was Lieutenant July 17, 1805 ,
Captain May 18, 1820 and Major February 11, 1835. He retired
May 25, 1835.
DHARMAPURI fort glacis.
• ♦ Sacred to the memory of James Ives, Esq., late Lieutenant-
Colonel in the Honourable Company's Madras Establishment,
who after a peripd of service of 21 years departed this life on
the 16th of October 1819, aged 37 years. Having distin-
guished himself at the head of his corps in the memorable
action at Mahidpore, he fell a victim to the return of fever
with which he had been attacked during the zealous discharge
of his duty in the field. This tomb was erected by his dis.
consolate widow, Maria Wilhelmina as a tribute of affection
to his virtues.
He married Miss W. Soutters, September 8th, 1810, at Cochin. She
had a daughter born on May 3, 1817, at Cochin. (Asiatic Journal
January 1818.)
HOSUR.
*' Ossore Fort from its situation is of great consequence and although not so large is much stronger than Bangalore." (Madras
Courier, September 11, 1791.)
For an account of " Kenilworth Castle," Hosur see No. 945.
2346 30th Jan. Walter Eliott Lock- Walter Eliott Lockhart, M.C.S., Collector of Salem, aged 49
1850. hart. years.
Third son of William Elliott, M.P., for Selkirkshire, 1806-30, who
assumed the name of Lockhart. He married July 25th, 1825
Mary Elizabeth Frances, fifth daughter of W. Proctor, of Droogs
Vlie, Cape of Good Hope.
KRISHNAGIRI.
On the 12th November 1791 Kistnagherry Fort was attacked by Colonel Maxwell (No. 1217) who was repulsed with the loss
of Lieutenant Forbes (No. 190) and Lieutenant Lamont, both of the 74th Regiment, killed. The Fort was surrendered by
Tippoo under the 1792 treaty with the rest of the Baramahal.
There are 19 tombs in the cemetery, three to children, and some with aa- enclosure now gone. All of them are without
inscriptions. One must certainly commemorate Captain Harry Smith (No. 2351), Commandant of the Garrison, who with
many others was blown up at midday on April 25th, 1801, by . the explosion of the magazine (see Welsh's 44 Military
Reminiscences," Vol. 1, p. 306). The ruins of this magazine are still visible on the top of the Rock. Cf. the blowing up of
the powder magazine at Triohy. in 1763 (Schwartz's life by Pearson, H. Vol. 1, p. 149) among them 3 very pious
Europeans.
208
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
(3)
2347 29th Nov.
1791.
2348 3rd March
1799.
2349 14th May
1799.
2350 11th June
1800.
2351 25th Jan.
1801.
2352 25th Jan.
1801.
2353 5th Aug.
1857.
Benjamin
Forbes.
SALEM DISTRICT-conr.
Inscription.
w
KRISHNAGIRI— cont.
John (Lieut. B. J. Forbes died of his wounds this morning.)
Charles Simpson
Daniel Venables
(Madras Courier.)
(Captain Charles Sjmpson died at Kistnagherry.)
He joined the army in 1781, was Lieutenant August 21. 1790 and*
Captain December 26, 1798.
(Lieutenant Daniel Venables.)
He joined the army in 1797 and was made Lieutenant, November
27, 1798.
Alex. Barbie . . (Lately at the magazine at Krishnagiri, Mr. Alex. Barrie.)
Henry Smith • . (Captain Henry Smith, 5th Native Infantry.)
George Willoughby. (George Willoughby Conductor of Ordnances.)
Sarah Wright . . To tho memory of Sarah Charlotte, wife of Captain J.
Wright, 1st N.V.B., who departed this life on the 5th of
August 1857, aged 26 years.
On Jan. 4, 1820, Capt. John Hairby Wright of the 4th N.V.B. died
at Trichinopoly. He was Cadet in 1804.
2354
11th Sept.
1872.
Samuel Graham
2355 13th Aug. John Campbell
1876. Glover.
2356
21st June
1821.
2357
13th July
1793.
MATAGIRI.
Mr. Samuel Graham, aged 52 years, the respected coachman
of six successive Governors of Madras during a period of
nearly 20 years, who died at the Remount Depot, Hosur.
This stone is placed here by his affectionate sister Margaret
Mckie.
There is a stone in South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta, to a
similar old servant, Francis Lemesle, steward for upwards of
twenty-seven years to six successive Governors-General, from
Cornwallis to Minto. He died October 19th, 1822.
Major John Campbell Glover, Madras Veterans.
Major Glover had his arm and part of his shoulder torn off by
cannon shot in Burma. The wound was so disfiguring that he
shunned society and retired aa Paymaster to Royacottah, where
he married a Mahoraedan lady. She died there and to her
memory he built a very beautiful tomb. Glover then took up his
residence near the great banyan tree at Jakkeri, 11 miles from
Hosur, which covers two acres of ground.
NAMAKAL.
Brevet Captain G. W. Dore, of the First Regiment of Native
Infantry, aged 30 years. This monument is erected by his
afflicted widow who has also to deplore the death of her son
Richard, aged 6 years.
He joined tho army in 1805 and was made Lieut. Aug. 17, 1808.
PENNAGARAM PORT GLACIS.
James Turing ^ Captain James Turing, Commandant of the Garrison of
Pinagra, and the 4th Battalion, Native Infantry.
The oldest legible tomb in the district. On May 13th, 1798, Captain
Wm. Rhodes, commanding Pinagra, died at Krishi^agiri. he
was probably Turing's successor (see No. 250). Rhodes 'warn
succeeded by Capt. J. Innee, May 18, 1798 (A.A.R.)
George Willoughby
Dore.
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SALEM DISTRICT — cont.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
(3)
Inscription.
(4)
ROYACOTTAH.
On the 20th July 1791 Royacottah Fort was captured from Tippoo by Major Gowdie (see No. 2708) on which occasion Lieutenant
Alexander Cree of the Madras Engineers was killed. The Fort gateway still bears the date 1797. In 1816 Captain Bevan
(see No. 2325) met at Royacottah the Abbe" Dubois 44 during his periodical visit to the community he had at this place.'
2358
12th Nov.
1795.
Elizabeth Keaser . . Elizabeth, daughter of Fkancis Keaser, aged 5 years.
Keaser was Quartermaster Serjeant with the 1st battalion 4th
N.I. Andrew Keaser married Maria Sack at Vopery, Sept. 13,
1800.
There are several other monuments without inscription!*. Jacob
Cassivolaun Fancourt, Surgeon, died here April 5th, 1800, but
his tomb is not to be traced. Fancourt married Miss Olivia
Devinish on May 26, 1793.
Later at Ry acottah Mr. John Macartney Surgeon on this Establish -
ment died (Courier, Oct. 30, 1799).
2359
2360
20th Mar.
1802.
29th Nov.
1811.
John Innes
Robert Montague
Strange
2361
Captain John Innes, of the Honourable East India Company's
Service, on their establishment of Fort St. George, aged
40 years.
He was in the 14th N.I.
Near this was interred the body of Colonel R. M. Strange in the
service while living of the East India Company. Ever kind
to the natives, himself beloved by the army to which he
belonged, dear to relatives, connections and acquaintances.
He died after a short illness at Ryacotta, the 29th of Novem
ber 1811. An object of heartfelt regret with all to whom
he was in any degree known. This stone is inscribed by
brothers, who, cherishing his memory, thus record his worth.
A very fine raised stone. Colonel Welsh stayed in 1 809 in his house
built by Colonel Doveton, a former commandant and afterwards
Commander-in-Chief of Madras. " If there ever was a pure
hoart in wretched sinful man Bob Strango possessed it. He was
very abstemious ; an early riser and great walker ; he required
no conveyance on a journey ; night or day was perfectly the same
to him ; and he would cheerfully walk 20 or 30 miles to break-
fast in a morning, and return the same night, as a matter of
course. His mild and gentle manners particularly endeared him
to the natives ; and when walking out, he always carried some
money and little scraps in his pocket, to give the little children
he was sure to moot in his perambulations. Still, he was not a
soldier ; he could not drill ; and a smart dress was his abomi-
nation ; but he was of more consequence, in my estimation, than
1,000 soldiers, raising the European character wherever he went
and compelling the natives to love their usurping rulers.** He
was the youngest son of Sir Robert Strange, the engravor.
His brothers woro James Strange, C.S. (1751-1840), and Sir
Thomas Strange, C. J. of Madras (1756-1841). Colonel Strange
married, November 1810, Miss E. M. Hargrave (see No, 2-347).
At Triohy. Feb. 28, 1802 Lieut. Thomas Strango 2nd Batt. 16th
N.I. died.
19th Nov. Alexander Camp- Lieutenant Alexander Campbell, of the Rifle Corps, aged
1819.
BELL.
2362 16th April William Roy
1821.
2363 25th Feb. Oliver Lloyd
1823.
28 years.
He joined the army in 1807 and was made Lieutenant May 21, 1814.
Ensign William Roy, late of the 5th Extra Battalion of Native
Infantry, aged 20 years.
He joined the army in 1820 as cadet.
Oliver Lloyd, Lieutenant, 1st Battalion 25th Native Infantry,
aged 19 years.
He joined the army in 1819 and was Lieutenant April 1 1820.
vol. n— 27
210
SALEM DISTRICT — cont.
Serial
number.
a)
Date.
(2)
Name.
(3)
Inscription.
(4)
2364
2365
7th Nov.
1831.
21st Sept.
1834.
Henry Currib
William
Burton.
ROYACOTTAH — cant.
.. Lieutenant Henry Currie, 9th Regiment Native Infantry,
commanding Royacotta, aged 28 years.
He joined the army in 1819 and was Lieutenant February 21, 1823.
Paton Captain W. P. Burton. Erected by his afflicted widow.
Of the 27th N.I. He married, September 28th, 1825, Miss M. H.
Lutter, daughter of Major Luttor, of the Danish service. Her
sister J. A. Lutter married Ensign L.E. Duval, 27th N.I., the
same yoar. Mrs. Burton died October 25th, 1835. He joined
the army in 1818, was mado Lieut. June 13, 1819. He was in-
valided Oct. 5, 1832 in India.
SANKAR1DROOG.
The Travellers' Bungalow under the Rock was formerly the house of James Oram long commandant of the garrison,
i l Twust!3th 1799 The 3rd or Palamcottah Light Infantry, of which he was Lieutenant- Colonel, originally
; « t £t£ ££. W^h who was an officer in the same regim,nt, praises him highly and mentions incidentally that
™£ ttoftel^ of the Sepoy " Maccaroni." The Bungalow is on a ruse. The House is off the road near aula 235.
The Cemetery is at the foot of the Rock and its white washed obelisk are visible far off.
. . William Ash, Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, 7th Regiment Native
2366
2367
2368
27th Aug.
1808.
21st Oct.
1819.
18th June
1820.
William Ash
James Tillary
Kettle.
Robert Waters
2369
20th April
1869.
Charles Frederick
Chamier.
Infantry, aged 22 years.
Ho joined the army in 1804 and was made Lieut. 17 July 1805.
(At Sankaridroog Capt. J. T. Kettle, 4th N.V.B.)
He joined the army in 1800, was Lieut. July 20, 1801 and Capt.
Feb. 2, 1814. He was invalided July 31, 1817 in India.
Lieutenant Robert Waters, of the 25th Regiment Madras
Native Infantry, son of Robert Waters, Esq., Bloomsbury
Square, London, aged 28 years, who departed this life leaving
an amiable young woman to mourn the loss of an affectionate
husband and of a person universally admired and esteemed
by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance.
His first wife, Minerva, whom he marriod October 26th, 1813,
at Tranquebar was the youngest daughter (if a younger daughter
who died as an infant is not taken into account) of Colonel
Milhldorff of Tranquebar. She died at Arnee, March 21st, 1815,
aged 17 years.
YERCAUD.
Charles Frederick Chamier, Esq., Civil and Session Judge of
Salem, with good will doing service as to the Lord and not to
men. Ephes. VI. 7.
He married, June 26th, 1849, Florence Letitia, daughter of Captain
T. Brown, Bombay Army. He belonged to a family of civi-
lians, his father and grandfather having been Secretaries to the
Madras Government under Lord Macartney and the Marquis of
Tweeddale. Chamier is an old Madras name, which appears
in ancient days. John Chamier was in the service from 1772
to 1809, and a Horiry Chamier from 1812 to 1848. The
Madras Courier of tho 16th January 1793 states that the
wife of Mr. .lohn Chamier presented him with a son, name not
mentioned. It was possibly Henry Chamier, whose son Colonel
Stephen Henry Edward Chamier was Inspector General of Ord-
nance from 1881 to 1886 when he retired. He died at the age
of 76. He succeeded Colonel " Bob " Cadell. A road in Madras
perpetuates the memory of Chiof Secretary Chamier. George
Fitz William Chamier, Bo., C.S., 1810-18, died at Salsotte,
January 3rd. 1818, and William Chamier, Bo., C.S., 1821-29,
at Surat, 30th June, 1829. John Chamier married October 1,
1785 Miss Georgiana Grace Burnaby. She died 1826. Josias Du
Pre Porcher marriod Nov. 1, 1787, Miss Charlotte Burnaby,
daughter of Sir William Burnaby Bart (d. 1797). Lieut. Col. John
Richardson married Mitfs Hariot Emma Burnaby on Dec. 7, 1793.
John Chamier had a son Captain James Chamier R. N. (1794-
1870) author of the " Life of a Sailor", etc. "The travels*' (or
an unsentimental journey thro. France, Switzerland and Italy),
Vols. Ill, 1885.
211
Serial
number.
(1)
2370
2371
Date.
(2)
7th Dec.
1883.
24th April
1889.
Name.
(3)
SALEM DISTRICT — cont.
YERCAUD — cont.
Inscription .
Edward
Short.
John Short
2372
25th June
1856.
Holwbll Captain Edward Holwbll Short, born 21st Dec. 1807.
Deputy Surgeon-General John Short and his infant son
Sydney Rogers.
A distinguished Eurasian, who rose from the position of an Apothe-
cary to be Deputy Surgeon-General of the Madras Army. He
passed all the Surgical and Medical Examinations with honours
and finally took the M.D. degree. Ho published many reports
on snake poisons, experimenting on the deadliest snakes without
any fear. He possessed a wonderful memory and was full of all
sorts of information on all kinds of subjects — a real walking
dictionary. His grandfather was Major John Shortt, husband
of No. 2697, and his father John Shortt, a Conductor of Ordnance,
who died at Vellore, November 9th, 1837, aged 77.
* NEIKUNDY.
Henrietta Amelia Sacred to Henrietta Amelia, daughter of John Cornail and
Corn all. Henrietta Midford, died 25th June 1856, aged 7 years and
11 months.
A way side grave on the Vaniyambadi-Natrampalli trunk road,
about midway between the 128th and 129th milestones. It was
built 70 years ago with brick in chunam and covered over with
a single granite slab 5 ft. by 3 ft. The masonry work is crumbling
away, but the stone slab is as good as new ; and the inscription
will last at least for a hundred years more.
* Now in the North Arcot distriot.
vol. n— 27a
212
TANJORE DISTRICT.
TRANQUEBAR.
Tranquebar, in Tamil Tarangambadi, " the village by the sound of the wave," dates from 1618. A Danish East India Company
was founded at Copenhagen in 1612, and six years later, tho first Danish merchantman the Oeresund landed in India. Its
Captain, lioelant Crape, was a Dutch sailor, who had been at tho court of Tanjore in his youth. He was pursued from
Ceylon by the Portuguese and wrecked off the coast of Coromandel. With a few of his crew he escaped to the Naik Raja of
Tanjore, who befriended him and gave him the site of Tranquobar, 5 miles long by 3 broad. Crape was then joined by a
/small fleet under Admiral Ove Geddo, a youth of 24. Gedde, whose manuscript diary of his voyago has been published by
Schlegel, laid tho foundations of the Dannosborg and of the Church in tho Fort, of which the first pastor was Peder Sorenser
Aale, who died some years afterwards at Tranquebar. In 1024 tho Company made over thoir territory and charter to King
Christian IV in liquidation of a debt. In 1845 Christian VIII ceded his Indian possessions to the East India Company
for £120,000. Tranquobar is in many respects the most interesting old European town in India. It is surrounded by a fine
Fort wall in remarkable preservation. The carriage road enters through an imposing gateway bearing tho date 1 792 and the
monogram of his most Christian Majesty uf Denmark. The principal thoroughfares still retain their ancient names of King Street
and Queen Street, and the houses, which are solid and well-built, have no compounds, but adjoin each other. Some of
them contain old fashioned cisterns to catch the rain, and tradition has it that tho Danes used to keep their chinking water
sweet by stirring it occasionally with a red-hot crowbar. On tho south side of King Street is the Lutheran Mission Church
called New Jerusalem, and on the opposite side lies tho English Church or Zion, formerly reserved for tho official Danish com-
munity, as opposed to Zicgenbalg's native congregation. Inside Jerusalem's Kicrke is an altar screen with symbolic devices
and a text of seven lines in Portuguese followed by twenty-four linos in Tamil. " De tal mancira amou Deus ao mundo,
quo deu a seu Filho unigenito, para que todo aquelle que n'clle cr£ nao peroca, mas tenhas a vida eterna. S. Joao cap. 3
ver. 16. Zum Tischo ties Herrn. Aufgorichtet 1807. Krncuert 1850." Upon the communion table are two silver candlesticks
inscribed " Christian Hanson Pauch. Anno 1088. Aima Maria Erichs Dottor," The pulpit is the identical one from which
Ziegenbalg and Pliitschau proachod in periwigs : the high chairs were made by the Moravian brethren, who so vainly attempted
to colonise tho Froderic's Islands of Nicobar : the last century hymn books are in Portuguese, printed at " Trangambar, na
officina da IiealMissao de Dinamarca " and contain an " oracao por a illustrissima Companhia da fndia Oriental." Zion
Church possesses other curious relics of the past. Its spire, shaped like a soldier's spiked helmet, has a bell with the date 1752 :
and within the vestry hangs an extraordinary painting of the Last Supper, coloured in relief upon wood after the manner of
Albrecht Diirer with the motto 44 Tu vis esse rneus per conam, Christe, sacratam ; Fao ut in aeternum sim manoamque tuns."
The Dannosborg, recontly used as a district jail, is a massive building facing the sea. In one of its disused chambers can be
seen the date 1077 and the arms of Christian the Fifth. Another piece of the old wall preserves the escutchoon of the Danish
Company (Asiatiske Handel) with the figure of an elophant underneath. There are as many as five cemeteries in the town,
containing inscriptions in nine languages, Armenian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Latin, Portuguese and
Swedish. A chalice in Zion church bears the inscription " Zion's Kirkes Alter liegueri— alter beaker) Tranquobar Forfoediset
Anno 1689 af H.C. Winther i Kiobenhavn."
In Ringeltaube's life by W. Robinson of Salem is an old picture of Tranquebar from the sea (1804).
NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH, KING STREET,
number. Date - Name ' Inscription.
<1) (2) (3) (4)
2373 9th Fob. Foundation Stone . . Psalraen CXXII V. 6. Ynsker Jerusalem Lyck det skal gaa
1717. dein vel som dig elske. Udi den Horre Zebaoths navn hauer
Hen* Commendant Chrtsten Brtjn til denne ny Jerusalem
Kierkis bygning nedlagt den fdrste steen. Anno 1717 Febr
d. 9.
Commandant Hrun, the layer of thin foundation stone, was the
successor of Johann Sigismund Hasius, who had imprisoned
Ziegenbalg and told him " that Hoaven was very high above his
head and Copenhagen very far off." A deed of amnesty between
them was drawn up on October 15th, 1714, and signed on one side
by J. 8. Hasius, Andreas Krahe (Kragh?), C. Brun, Jacob Pauch
(Hauch?) and on tho other side by Ziegenbalg and Griindler.
Hasius was rocalled by the company in 1716, the year Ziegenbalg
returned from Europe. See Fenger s " History of the Tranquebar
Mission " for a very curious account of these times. He reprints
Ziegenbalg's sormon proached at the foundation of the Church,
on the text 1 Corinthians 3.11.
Johann Christian Lebkecht Ziegenbalg, natus 14 May 1718
denatus 23 May 1718.
The oldest tomb in Tranquebar. In 1715 Ziegenbalg married Maria
Dorothea Salzmann, who had formerly been his pupil at Merse-
burg, where her father was Government Secretary. Of their
three children two died early. The eldest was afterwards Pro-
fessor of Mathematics in Copenhagen, and then for a time Director
of the Danish Factory of Fredericsnagor (Serampore). He returned
to Europe and died there in 1758.
2374 23rd May Johasn Christian
1718. Lebrecht Ziegen
balg.
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number.
Date. Name. Inscription.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH, KING STREET — cont.
2375 23rd Feb. Bartholomew Zie- In spe gloriosse resurrectionis quiescunt hie ossa beati Bartho-
1719. genbalg. lomei Ziegenbalg Sacr. Reg. Maj. Dan.et Norw. missionarii
ad Tamulos, viri doctissimi gravissimi fidelissimi et per
XIII annos ecclesias evangelicse ex iisdem collectse Propositi
pra>clarissimi nati 24 Jun. 1683, denati 23 Feb. 1719.
Native of Pulsnitz in Saxony, graduate of Halle ; arrived 1706.
Propositus is the translation of the German " Props t " or
Provost. As Ziegenbalg was the first to preach in New Jerusalem
Church, so he was the first to be buried there. He lios on the
right hand of the altar, opposite his colleague Grundler. Their
places are marked by thin copper- plates let into the wall, with
Latin inscriptions from the pen of Schultze, who was like Sehwarz
a native of Sonnonburg in Brandenburg. The Latinity is not
remarkable, except for the use of the ante-c lassical word '* dena-
tus," which is found all over Tranquobar. Ziegenbalg is the
father of Protestant Missions in India. His name, though little
known among Englishmen to-day, was once rocoived with en-
thusiasm in London. He had audiences of King George in
1716, and preached many times in the Chapels Royal and Savoy.
The S.P.C.K. gave him a congratulatory address in Latin, to
which he returned a reply in Tamil. Encouraging lotters wore
written to him by Dr. Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury, and one
communication, received in India after Zicgenbalg's own death,
bears the following testimony to his apostolic usefulness : " I
consider that your lot is far higher than all church dignities.
Let others be prelates, patriarchs and popes ; let them be adorned
with purple and scarlet, let them desire bowings and genuflexions.
You have won a greater honour than all these and a far more
magnificent recompense shall be given you." An account of
Ziegenbalg is given in the first number of the 4k Calcutta Review."
2376 21st Mar. John Ernst Grund- In spe futureo resurrectionis hie placide quiescunt exuviae
1720. ler. beati viri multum venerandi Magistri Johannes Ernst
Grundler per XI annos regii inter Tamulos missionarii et
ecclesiae Christi ox iisdem collects pastoris fidelissimi nati 17
Apr. 1677 denati 21 Mart 1720.
Native of Weisaensee, graduate of Halle; arrived 170!). After
Ziegenbalg's death his mantle fell upon Grundler, a woolearder
by origin, who survived him only for one year and was succeeded
by Schultze, the founder of the Protestant Mission at Madras.
Plutschau had returned to Europe in 1711 and never came out
again. Plutschau was native of Wesenborg in Mecklenberg;
graduate of Halle ; arrived 1706; invalided 1711. He died as
pastor of Bcyenflieth in Holstein about 1746. Schultze died
1st May 1709 : 11 he must have lived 57 years after quitting India
and 80 from the time of first coming " (Taylor, p. 85). He
succeeded Treylinghanson in 1788.
2377 16th Feb. J. H. Kistenmacher. Sepulchrum J. H. Kistenmacher reverendi misionarii primo
1722. anno hie vitam degentis MDCCXXII
Most difficult to read. An hour glass is engraved on the tombstone
Kistenmacher was born at Burg in Magdeburg and came ou
with Dal and Schultze, but died unordained,
2378 12th May Samuel Richtsteig . . Monumentum sepulchrale reverendi missionarii Samuel Gott-
1735. ueb Richtsteig nati MDCCI denati MDCCXXXV d. XII
Maii.
Born at Landsberg on the Warthe, Neumark, Brandenburg.
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number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
Inscription.
(3) (4)
NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH, KING STREET — cont.
2379 30th May
1735.
Andrew Worm
Johanna Worm
Augusta Worm.
2380 15th Feb.
1738.
2381 3rd Sept.
1745.
2382 5th May
1747.
Christian Pressor.
William Obuch
Nicolas Dal
2383 8th Jan.
1762.
Robert Slopef
2384 7th April
1767.
2385 30th Dec.
1771.
2386 8th Aug.
1774.
2387 20th Nov.
1776.
John Christian
WlEDEBROCK.
James Miller
Frederick
MANN.
Leide-
Oluip Maderup
Hior ruhet der ehrw. missionarius Andreas Worm seiner
Alters 31 Jahre nebst seiner ehegenossin Frau Johanna
Catharina geborne Hall ihres Alters 18 Jahre und TOch-
terlein Augusta Reoina ihres Alters 6 monate, alle drey
iin Herrn entschlafen, anno 1735.
bom at Neubrandenburg in Mecklenburg Strolitz. He was a
pupil of the celebrated Budaeus of Jona. " Worm seems to have
been a superior man. It is recorded of him that ho spoke Tamil
like a Mrahman " (Taylor's memoir of the Vepery Mission, p. 7).
Monumenturu sepulchrale Christian Friedrich Pressier
missionarii nati anno 1697 Perleberg denati 1738.
Requiescunt hie ossa reverendi Gulielmi Obuch per VIII
annos summa sapientia missionarii nati MDCCVII denati
Tranquobariae anno MDCCXLV d. HI Sept.
Born at Morungen in East Prussia.
Sub hoc lapide requiescunt exuviae viri plurimum reverendi
Nicolai Dal As. (Sacr. ?) Reg. Maj. Dan. et Norw. ad Indos
orientales missi missionarii vigilantissimi nati Haderslebise
die 11 Apr. anno MDCXC at post graves labores et rarae
pietatis studium denati Tranquebariae die V. Maii anno-
MDCCXLVlIsperantisse suum contemplaturum servatorem
Jobi XIX.
The " dilatory Dal " was one of the low Danes in the mission,
but at the same time was against his countrymen being sent out as
missionaries. He signs himself ' your true friend and countryman
from Anslet in the parish Aller (Sleswick, district of Haders-
lebon) missionary and servant of the word of God in the Portu-
guese congregation."
Hero lieth the body of Robert Slopbr, Esq., in the church-
yard of Tranquebar, one of the Council of Fort St. David
who departed this life the 8th day of January, Anno Domini
1762, aged 64 years.
He gave his name to a street at Cuddalore, where his wife Kitoria
lies buried, January 2nd, 1793, aged 64 (see No. 1207).
Deo eoclesise viri plurimum reverendi Ioannis Christian Wiede-
brock missionarii ad Indos orientales per XXXI annos
fidelissimi nati Mindae Guestph. A.D. MDCCXIII d 19
Febr. denati MDCCLXVII d. VII Apr.
Born at Minden in Westphalia. Jn 1753 he accompanied the suite
of Captain vSivers to the court of Tanjore as interpreter.
Monumentum domini Jacobi Muller, Waldeck, missionarii
a Deo dati sed cito avocati nati die 24 Maii 1734 denati die-
30 Dec. 1771.
Bom at Horinghausen in Waldeck.
Hie requiescit B. Fried. Gulielm. Leidemann Westphalua
missionarius per 5 annos natus MDCCXLII denatus
MDCCLXXIV.
Born at Stadthagen in Lippe-Sehaumburg. B. stands for beatus*
Aqui descancao emo Senhor os ossos do reverendo senhor padre.
Oluf Maderup missionario por XXXIV annos naceo XX d
September, anno MDCCXI.
A Dane, born at Maderup in Funen (Funen is the German spelling •
Fynen is the Danish), Denmark, and thrice married. At this*
time Portuguese was used as the medium of intercourse between
Europeans and Natives. The mission had throe congregations:
the Portuguese, the Tamilian of the town and the Tamilian of
the country,
215
TANJORE DISTRICT — cont.
^j** Date. Nome. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH, KING STREET — cont.
2388 24th Nov. Susanna Jacob a To the memory of Susanna Jacob a Kcenig. Esai LVH.
1777.
K(BNIG.
2389
22nd April
1786.
Anna Zeglin
2390
17th Nov.
1790.
John Balthasar
kohlhoff.
2391
2392
2393
17th Sept.
1819.
25th May
1820.
17th July
1821.
Charlotte
VOGEL.
SCHREY-
Margaret Lloyd
I. G. Klein
Justus pervenit ad pacem. Requiescunt in sepulchris qui
recte vixerunt. In memoriam pia* Christi discipular Susanna
Iacobje Kcentg nata? Breithaupt, in vita filial amabilis
et conjugis fidelis, vixit XX annos et VII menses et cum
vera in Salvatorem suum fide obiit in primo puerperio una
cum sua subole die XXIV Nov., MDCCLXXVII. Heu !
tua vita fugit subito percara Susanna ! Ccoli colas inter
recroet te vita perennis ! F. Kcenig lugubris maritus.
Her husband, born at Kftrmern near Halle. October 20th, 1741,
died at Tranquebar, February 4th, 1795. Ho must not bo confused
with the pupil and correspondent of Linnaeus, J. (J. Kumig
who was a famous botanist, and acquired the friendship of 8ir
Thomas Munro. He was born in 1728 and died on his journey
along tho coast to Calcutta, Juno 20th, 1785.
Hier ruhet die selige Frau Anna Zegun geborne Gramer,
geb. d. 16 Jan. 1716, gest. d. 22 Apr. 1786. Sie erwaehlte
und geniesset nun das beste Theil bey Christo.
Her husband Daniel Zeglin eamo out in 1740 with Fabricius and
Kiernander (first missionary of the church of England in Bengal)
and died at Tranquebar, May 4th, 1780. Kiernander has a
family tomb of immense size painted blue in the Mission Cemetery
at Calcutta, which adjoins the North Park Street Burial ground,
where Thackeray's father roposoa. He died December 29th
1799, aged 88.
Hie requieBcit B. Johan Balthasar Kohlhoff, missionarius
per 53 annos. In officio suo fidelis, per afflictionem probatus
annis 79 et I mense peractis salutem Domini sui ardentissime
expectans ab eo in laetitiam aeternam translatus est die 17
Nov. 1790.
Born at Neuwarp in Western Pornerania. Mrs. Petronella Kohlhoft
his relict, died at Tanjoro on the 19th January 1807, in her 80th
year.
Charlotte, the wife of the Rev. Daniel Schreyvogel, who
departed this life on the 17th September 1819 in the joyful
hope that she was a child of God, aged 27 years.
Schreyvogel died at Pondicherry, January Hith, 1840 (No. 1252).
Mrs. Margaret Lloyd, who departed this life on the 25th May
1820, aged 49 years.
G. Klein, D.M., born 28th April 1766.
1821.
2394
22nd Oct.
1837.
Augustus Frederick
Caemmerer.
Died 17th July
Son of the famous mis8ionary scientist Jacob Klein, born at Elbing
in Prussia, January 20th, 1721, died at Tranquebar, iMay 18th t
1790. At Vepery[ Madras] at the house of John Forbes, Jacob
Daniel Klein, aged IT> years "» months and 9 days, tho only eon
of Rev. Charles Daniel Klein of the Tranquebar Mission died
(Asiatic Journal, July 1817.)
Rev. Augustus Frederick Caemmerer, D.D., who departed
this life on the 22nd day of October 1837, aged 70 years and
4 months, after faithfully and indefatigably discharging
the duties of a labourer in the Danish Mission at Tranquebar
during the long period of 48 years. Impressed with a deep
sense of duty to his Creator, he discharged it in the spirit of
Christianity with meekness and humility. He lived respected
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number.
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NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH, KING STREET— cont.
and died regretted. To record his worth this monument is
erected as affection's last sad tribute by his sorrowing daugh-
ter.
Born at Wusterhausen in Brandenburg, June 22nd, 1767. Cam-
merer's first arrival at Tranquebar was by swimming ashore ; the
ship or boat being wrecked (Robinson's life, p. 39). It was in his
time " that the Mission in Tranquebar, the mother of all others,
sank down to be a small institution in one place only," in other
words it was a sleepy hollow. He had a son of the same name,
who entored the S.P.C, and whose daughter married firstly H.G.
Smith, C.S., and secondly A. L. Lister, C.S. A daughter of
Mrs. Smith married Lieutenant-Colonel Rogers Harrison, I.M.S.
Ringeltaube sympathized with Schroyvogol and in one of his
letters calls the missionaries John and Cammerer " old school
foxes oaten up with the desire of ruling " (Robinson's life, p. 57).
2395 16th Feb. Carl Christian Von Carl Christian Von Gotting, Lieut. -Colonel in the Danish
1853.
Gotting.
2396 14th June A.M. Ruhde
1856.
2397
2398
2nd Nov. M. E. Halkier
1865.
8th May
1874.
D. S. CAMMERER
2399
21st June
1887.
J. M. N. Schwarz
Array, born 16th June 1768, died 16th February 1853.
His wife Eugenie died November 4th, 1861, aged 71.
A Mr. J. L. Gotting married Miss J. C. Eugol, February 1810.
Mrs. A. M. Ruhde, who departed this life, the June 14th,
1856, aged 69 years.
Agatha Margaret Kuhdo was a daughter of Colonel MQhldorff. Her
husband was a Surgeon and died in 1832.
Mrs. M. E. Halkier, born 12th November 1792, died 2nd
November 1865.
D. S. CiBMMERER, wife of the late Rev. Dr. A. F. Csemmerer,
aged 87 years and 25 days.
These are evidently the old ladies alluded to in a former edition of
Murray's " Handbook to Madras." " The Danes lived at this
place to a great age. And it used to be a pleasant sight some
years ago to see, as the sun was about to set, the very old ladies
coming out in their best attire to call on their neighbours.'*
Cammeror's first wife died February 10, 1806, in the prime of life.
J. M. N. Schwarz geboren 21 Maerz 1813 ankiinft in Indien
25th Dec. 1843 gestorben 21st Juni 1887. Der Herr ist
auforstanden und lebt ; wir auch werden auferstehen und
mit ihm leben in Ewigkeit, Hallelujah ! Erected by his
widow, L. Schwarz.
ZION CHURCHYARD, TRANQUEBAR.
2400 13th Sep. Maria Willads Weile. Her ligge Ruinerne af en iordisk Boeiig for en himmel sindet
1778.[?] Siael Bolette Maria Willads fadt 9 December 1753, Forlod
Ki&bh d. 9 December 1777. Og efter 9 maaned 11 Dages
Kummerfulde iEgteskab giorde sit 11 Dages Barn Johanna
Edel Christina d. 13 Sept. modertos og sin Mand Pr^isten
Henrik Johannis Weile om iordisk Salighed haabelos ;
men haabnok, i Himlen samles wi.
" Here lie the ruins of an earthly residence for a heavenly minded
soul Bolette Maria Willads, born 9th Dec. 1753, left Copenha-
gen 9th Dec. 1777. And after nine months and 11 days' sorrowful
matrimony, made her 11 days old child Johanna Edel Christina
on Sept. 13th motherless and her husband Rev. Henrik
Johannis Weile hopeless of earthly happiness, but hope still, in
Heaven we meet."
217
TANJORE DISTRICT — cont.
Serial Date. . Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
ZION CHURCHYARD, TRANQUEBAR — cont.
2401 1782 to 1794. Frederick Christian Her giemmes det Jordiske af Friderioh Christian Halkier
Halkier and Family. Factor ved den Asiatiske Handel her i Tranquebar f6d,
d. 24deJuni Ao. 1730. Dod d. 19de Juni Ao. 1782. Simt
af hans tvende Dottre Helena Enginette Halkier f<5d
d. 30te Dec. Ao. 1778 dod d. 6to Jan. Ao. 1782, lig planten
visnede hun bort i sin forste spire, og Anoelique Abioael
Halkier fod, d. 28de Dec. Ao. 1775, d6d d. 17de Feb. 1794.
Hvad hun var vidne de mange iEdles Taare der v®de hendes
Grav : Hvad hun kunde blevet lserer hendes Minde der
uudslettelig lever i ethvert, Bryst. Dette tolke Vittigheds
sildigste dyrkere yndigheds og Dyds stille beundrere at
hun fortiener at vsere deres Mynster at hun ey blot var den
olskvaerdigste Datter, men snarere den fortroligste Veninde
for en efterlevende Moder og anden Fader, der kierlige sadte
hende dette Venskabs Msele.
Here lie the bodies of F. C. Halkier, factor of the Asiatic Company
here in Tranquebar, born 24th Juno 1730, died 19th June 1782.
Also of his two daughters : Holona, born 30th Doc. 1778, died
6th Jan. 1782, who witherod like a tender plant ; and Angelica,
born 28th Dec. 1775, died 17th Feb. 1794. What she was is
shewn by the many noble tears shed on her grave. What she might
have been, we learn from her memory of her virtues which lives
imperishable in the heart of friends. All who admire virtue
and charm will to their last bear witness that she deserves to b©
their example. She was not only the fondest of daughters,
but the truest friend of a bereaved mother and a step-father, who
kindly erected this memorial."
The " step-father " was Petor Hormanson, at the time in charge
of the customs, later member of council, and also Governor. He
married Mrs. Angelique Halkier, nee de Roche, the widow of F. C»
Halkier on Sept. 4, 1782 (see " list of marriages in the Danish
Church, Tranquebar " by Rev. K. Heiberg).
2402 14th Mar. Anna Elisabeth Skue med iErbodighed dette Gravmaele thi det giemmer
1795. Pinoel. stOvet af en huuslig Quinde, 6m Veninde omhygelig Moder
og oprigtig Hustrue Anna Elisabeth Pinoel fodt Rostmand
d. 20 Martii 1757. Hun var givt forste Gang med Johan
Abraham Seieroe, anden Gang med Factor Johan Christian
Pingel. Hun blov ved dem Moder til 13 Born hvoraf Fern
overlevede hendes Bortgang. Hun dode d. 14 Martii 1795.
Mret elsket og begraedt af enhver som kiendte hendes
aodle Hjerte og retskaffne Vandel, thi huuslig omhygelighed
og utrattet Velgiorenhed var hendes Daad, Taekkelfghed
omhed og Gudsfrygt hendes Haoder.
" Look with reverence on this tomb, for beneath it lie the remains
of a virtuous woman, tender friend, careful mother, and true
wife, A. E. Pingel, born Nee Rostmand the 20th March 1757.
She was married first to J. A. Seieroe, factor, and secondly to
J. C. Pingel, factor. By these two husbands she became the
mother of 13 children, of whom five survive. On the 14th March
1795 she died. All who knew her noble heart and upright conduct
honour and love her with tears. Her deeds were domestic careful*
ness and indefatigable charity ; her thoughts were tenderness and
piety.'*
Johan (or Jan) Abraham Sejeroe was the first English Military
Officer.
vol. n— 28
218
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
TANJORE DISTRICT— con*.
Name. Inscription.
(3) (4)
ZION CHURCHYARD, TRANQUEBAR — cont.
2403
23rd June
1795.
Jean Jacques Gau-
tiee.
2404
2405
2406
5th Dec.
1805.
16th Mar.
1807.
28th Jan.
1809.
Jean Baptist
DOIN.
Jens Bobgbn
Family.
Frederikka Augusta
Rehiring.
2407
2nd June
1810.
Claudia Henrikka
Meinhardt.
2408
29th Oct.
1815.
Angelique
SON.
Her giemmes det jordiske af Jean Jacques Gautier, Oberst-
Lieutenant i Fransk Tieneste, Gouverneur af Chandernagore,
Chevalier of St. Louis, fod i Montauban d. 22 December
1746, givt i Tranquebar d. 28 October 1794 og dad d. 23 Juni
1795. Retskaffenhed i Tienesten, Fasthed i Hengivenhed,
RedeHghed i Omgang, Blidhed i Sseder, Roelighed i Modgang,
og Beskedenhed i Medgang, prydede Hans Liv og fortiente
Ham dette Haedersminde af hans sorgende forladte Enke
J.L.H. St. G.
He appears to have been the Governor of Chandernagore who was
expelled by the populace during the Indian counterpart of the
French revolution.
" Here lie the remains of J. J. Gautier, Lieut.-Colonel in the French
Service, Governor of Chandernagore, Chevalier of St. Louis, born
at Montauban, 22nd Dec. 1746, married at Tranquebar 28th Oct.
1794, and died there 23rd June 1795. Upright in service, stedfast
in affection, honest in society, benevolent in conduct, calm in
adversity, modest in prosperity, these were the qualities that
adorned his life and career. This memorial was erected by his
sorrowing and bereaved widow J.L.H. St. G."
The 44 sorrowing and bereaved widow " was Mrs. Johanna Lovisa
Hedwig Klaumann (widow) whom Gautier married Oct. 28,
1794. 9
Gran- (At Tranquebar on the 5th Dec. 1805 Capt. Jean Baptist
Grandoin, regretted by a numerous circle of friends and
relations).
and Her hviler ogsaa Faderen Jens Borgen, Byefoged, dod d. 20
Mai 1792, Moderen Janette Borgen dod d. 22 April 1804,
og brodersonnen C.A. Borgen, Byefoged dod d. 16 Martii 1807.
44 Here rests the fathor Jens Borgen, Magistrate, died 20th May
1792 ; the mother, Janette Borgen died 22nd April 1804 ; and the
brother's son, C. A. Borgen, diod 16th March 1807."
Her hviler Frederikka Augusta Rehling. Hendes navn
er hendes Lovtale, thi hun var uden Lige. Hun blev fodt
den 14de April 1783. Hun indgik til et bedre Liv den 28de
Januarii 1809.
** Here rests F. A. Rehling. Her name is hor eulogy, for she had
no equal. Born 14th April 1783. Entered into a bettor life
28th Jan. 1809."
Her slumrer Claudia Henrikka Meinhardt Evighedens
Morgen i Mode. Hun var fodt d. 12 Mai 1778 og. dode d. 2
Junii 1810. Hendes Mand Casserer Meinhardt og tvende
Dottre begrsede den tabte.
44 Here sleeps C. H. Meinhardt, awaiting the morning of eternity.
Born 12th May 1778 ; died 2nd June 1810. Her husband Mein-
hardt, the treasurer, and her two daughters bewail the lost one."
Johan Georg Meinhardt married Claudia Henricka Borgen on April
28, 1795. (Rev. Heiborg's List of Danish Marriages.) On June
10, 1817 at Tranquebar Robert Bayfield Pavin of the Country
Service, married Miss Anna Claudina Meinhardt, daughter of
G. Meinhardt, Master Attondant of that placo. (Asiatic Journal.
Jan. 1818.)
Anna Claudina Meinhardt, widow of Robert Bayfield Pavin
married Harris Richard, April 19, 1826 at Tranquebar. Harris
Richard had married Lowisa Janetta Meinhardt on Sept. 17,
1812 at Tranquebar. (Rev. Heiberg's List of Danish Marriages.)
Herman- Her hviler Angelique Hermanson, fodt d. XIII Maii
MDCCLVII, gift med Etatsraad Hermanson d. IV Sept
MDCCLXXXII, d5d d. XXIX Oct. MDCCCXV.
44 Here lies Angelica Hermanson, born 13th May 1757, married
to Counsellor Hermanson 4th Sept. 1782 (her first husband
F. C. Halkier died on June 11, 1782.), died 29th Oct. 1815."
married Angelika (DeRoche)
(Rev. Heiberg's List of Marriage*
Hermanson, Peter 44 Tolderen "
widow of Halkier Sept. 4, 1782.
in Tranquebar.)
At Tranquebar Novr. 11, 1805 one Captain Winther, A. Jens
married Miss Anna Maria Hermanson. She married .secondly Seig-
fried Bech on 26th July 1813. ' " '
219
TANJORE DISTRICT— cmt.
Serial
number,
(1)
2409
Date.
(2)
Name.
(3)
ZION CHURCHYARD, TRANQUEBAR-
Inscription.
(4)
-eont.
1817
2410
20th Oct.
1819.
C. Panperien
William Maoleod
2411
29th July
1824.
2412 1860
Martha Wright
W. C. Peterson
(Rev. C. Panperien Treasurer Maenig, who married an
Arabian wife at Jerusalam an. orphan from the.School there.)
The date and name of this inscription is not olear in the manuscript.
William Macleod, Esq., late a Captain in H.M. Service and
Deputy Commissary of Musters to the King's troops in
India, aged 59 years.
He married, , May 13th, 1804, Catharina, the daughter of Abraham
Couperus, Governor of one of the Dutch settlements. His widow
married, April 12th, 1820, Captain Ounoan Sim of the Madras
Engineers, father of J. 0. Sim, C.S.I., and grandfather of H. A.
Sim, C.I.E., both of the M.C.S. (See No. 680). He was wounded
at Seringapatam, was a Captain in the 73rd foot*
To the memory of Martha Wright, who departed this life on
the 29th July 1824 aged 44 years.
(Inscription practically gone.)
William Christian Peterson of the Royal Danish Civil
Service Counsellor and Cashier to His Majesty the King of
Denmark born 1796 died 1860.
His daughter Olivia Adelaide Peterson who died on 9bh September
1 854 aged 20 years 2 months and 20 days is buried by his side.
OLD DANISH CEMETERY, TRANQUEBAR.
2413
4th Mar.
1768.
Anna Christina
Jorobnsen.
2414
2415
6th July
1771.
5th June
1780.
Her under hviiler Velsedie og med aid Dyd ziiret Mad : Anna
Christine Joroensen en eeneste Daatter af Her Lieutenant
Niels Marcussen og Kisereate Cicilia Abigael. Hun blev f6ed
til Werden den 23de Aprilis 1750, kom i iEgteskab med Hr.
Byefoged Soren Jorgensen den 27de September 1763. J
hvilket ^Egteskab hun blev welsignet med 2de Born nemlig
een Son og een Daatter, hvoraf dend sidste i Forveyen blev
kaldet til Gud den 4de Martii 1767. Endelig hensov i Herren
denne hos Gud salige just Aaret derefter, nemlig den 4de
Marti 1768 i een Alder af 17 Aar 10 Maaneder og 10 Dage.
44 Here lies Anna Christiana Jorgenson, a noble lady, endowed
with every virtue, only daughter of Lieut. N. Marcussen and
Cicilia Abigail his wife. She was born into the world 23rd April
1750 and married to the Magistrate S. Jorgensen 27th Sept. 1763.
In her married life she was blessed with two children, namely,
a son and daughter, the latter of whom was taken to God on the
4th March 1767. One year afterwards the mother entered into
happiness on the 4th March 1768, aged 17 years, 10 months and
10 days.
Sub hasce umbras quiescit Christiana Elizabetha filia Petri
et uxoris suae Nelle Ohmannii nata MDCCLVI die 26 Sept.
nature autem debitum solvit Ao. MDCCLXXI 6 Julii in
suae anno aetatis XIV menses IX dies XXIV. Sperant tui
parentes in regno Dei te visuram.
Louisa Ulricha Sub hasce umbras quiescit Lovisa Ulricha Pilia Petri suaeque
Olivarius. uxoris Nelle Ohmannii nata MDCCLIX die VII Mart :
coniugio vero inito cum Henrico Olivario Ao.
MDOCLXXVII 14 August sqenti vero Anno V ; Julii beata
nostra nata filia Margareta Elisab : Obiit uxor mea 1780 ; 5 :
Junii.
She mrariad Olivarius Hendriok on Aug. 14, 1 777. (Rev. Hsiberg'a
List of Danish Marriages.)
Christiana Ohmann.
vol. n— 28a
220
TANJORE DISTRICT — cord.
Serial Dale. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) <3) (4)
OLD DANISH CEMETERY, TRANQUEBAR — cont.
2416 28th Mar. Margabetha Oli- Henrici Olivarii uxorisque suae Lovisas UlrichaB filia Marga-
1781. varius. retha Elisabetha Olivarius quiescit hic, nata 1778 5
Julii obiit autem 1781 28 vo - die Martii. Apoc. 14, 13 Beati
Mortui qui in Domino moriuntur.
See No 1685.
2417 4th Sept. Gysbbrtus Ziege- Hier rust Gysbertus Zieoelaar in leven capitain militair in
1783. laar. dienst der Hollandse Oostendische Compe en commandant
der Nagapatnamse buytensstad, geboren te Schraevenhagen
den 6 Juny. Ao 1731 en overleden &c. Tranquebaar den 4
September Ao 1783 oud 52 iaar 2 m. 28 d.
Slab let into the northern wall close to the entrance of the graveyard.
2418 21st July Leonhard Passavant. Leonhard Passavant natus 4 Aug. 1742, mortuus 21 Julii
1784. 1784, priscae viro fidei amico verendo, H.P. Hansen.
2419 21st May Michael Sundt Her under giemmes de jordiske levninger af den udi Livet
1785. agtvaerdige Michael Sundt, fodt i Christiansstaed i Norge
den 13de May 1731, dod udi Tranquebar den 21 May 1785.
Efter at han haver stoed nogle Aar som Premier Lieutenant
i det Danske Asiatiske Compagnies Tieneste, henlevede han
den ovrige Deel af sit liv som en vindskibelig og retskaffen
Borger. Var tvend® Gange gift, forst med Inger Sal. Storres i
hvilket iEgteskab han avlede en Son som er dod, i hans
andet iEgteskab med Agatha Lem velsignede Gud ham
med 9 Born, 4 Sonner, hvoraf eon er dod, og. 5 Dottre,
hvilke leve tilbage med deres sorgende Moder, som alle tabte
i ham en kierlig Mand, en retskaffen Fader, en omhygelig
Ven. Korte Dago, mange plager blev de Dodoliges Karr.
Vuggen laorer os at graele, Sorgen vokser med voro Aar.
Hseld Dig, som din Sorg hernedea endt3 vel i Evig' eden.
" Hero lie the earthly remains of tho Honourable Michael Sundt,
born at Christienstad in Norway 13th May 1731, died in Tran
quebar 21st May 1785. After serving for somo years aB first
Lieutenant in the Danish Company's Service, he spent the rest
of his life as an industrious and honest citizen. He was twice
married, first to I. S. Stores, by which union he had a son, now
dead. By his second wife Agatha Lem, God blessed him with
9 children — 4 sons, of whom one is dead, and 5 daughters, who are
left with their sorrowing mother. In him all lost a worthy man,
an upright father, and a pleasant friend. Short days and many
plagues is tho lot of mortals. The cradle teaches us to weep ; and
sorrows grow with increasing years. Blessed be thou if thy
tribulation in this world ends blessedly in eternity."
Two of Sundt's sons entered the Madras army, Joachim, who died
at Vellore, August 8th, 1795, and Ludovic, who died at Ganjam,
• February 1st, 1791 (No. 1634). His daughter married Colonel
MtihldorfT and his sister became tho wife of Blueher's brother.
There was a F[rederic] Sundt who was prohibited by an order of
the Royal Government in Denmark, from Denmark, as he had
lepra
2420 25th Sept. Petbonellb Hansen. Petronelle Elizabeth Hansen, Filia Ld : Passavant, nata
1785. 21 Nov. 1771, mortua 25 Sept. 1785, Decorae probae dilectae
viduus, H.P. Hansen.
2421 16th Jan, Edward Mackintosh. To the memory of Edward Mackintosh, Esq., born in the
1787, northern parts of Great Britain, died in Tranquebar the
XVI January A.D. MDCCLXXXVII, beloved, esteemed
and regretted. As a mark of fraternal love this monument
is erected by William Mackintosh, Captain in the English
Company's Service.
From „"ithe Burial ground at Tranquebar." Urquhart, Vol. II,
p. 219.
221
TANJORE DISTRICT— cont.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) 14)
OLD DANISH CEMETERY, TRANQUEBAR — cont.
2422 5th Feb. William Cooper William Cooper Keating, Lieut. -Colonel in the Honourable
1788. Keating. the English East India Company's Service, born in London,
the 14th May 174(5, died the 5th February 1788. Regretted
*by his numerous friends and lamented by an affectionate
wife, who has placed this monument to his memory.
Ho was EnHign Oct 9, 1764. Ho was commanding the 5th Battalion
of Sepoys. He married Metta Margaret ha Sundt, sister-in-law
of Colonel Muhldorff. Zion Church Marriage Register has :
'* 1774 (date illegible) were in Mr. Sundt's house married Grenadier.
Captaine in english service — Ketting with spinster Metta
Margarctha Sundt."
1784 July 4 was the baptism of Kiettings and Mrs. Kietting's son
William confirmed in Zion's Church.
Burial Register 1788, Febr. 5th has 4 * Colonel in english service
Mr. N. (?) KicBtting."
(K lotting 'h name is found several times as Godfather in the baptismal
register in 1787).
Mrs. Kostting married 1792 Daniel Stevenson.
Her son, born 1779 at Amboor was Rev. William Amboo P
Keating Chaplain who died of cholera 7th May 1820. He
married on 24th March 1817 at St. Marys* Church, while
Chaplain to the Garrison of Fort St. Goorge, a widow Margaret
Wray third daughter of Thomas Lewis, Esq. of Dean Lodge, Ealing,
Middlesex. Rev. Edward Page Lewis Chaplain of Bunder, son of
Thomas Lewis M.D. of London and brother of Rev. Thos.
Lewis married his widow Margaret. On Jan. 11, 1817, George
Stratton married Anne, eldest daughter of Thomas Lewis.
At Vizagapatam March 27, 1788, Michael Keating married Miss
Frances Campbell. At Bimlipatam on 0th May 1801 Richard
Keating married Miss Matilda Bren. He die 1 at Ingeram on
Sept. 11, 1836, aged 71 years.
On Nov. 30, 1809, at Patnah at the house of C. Keating, Esq., Mrs,
Keating, the lady of the Rev. W. A. Keating, M.A. of the
Madras Establishment died aged 30 years.
2423 15th Aug. Catherine Elizabeth Mrs. Catherine Elizabeth Top, wife of Casper Top, Esq.,
1789. Top. died in childbed, aged 19 years.
Catherine Elizabeth Top (baptized on 27th May 1770) was a
daughter of Michael Sundt. She married Casper Top Jan. 21,
1788. Casper Top died at Serampore, Docember 12th, 1812,
aged 54 years.
A memorial tablet put up by her daughter in 1820 is in the Zion
Church.
2424 2nd Nov. Anna Rboina Prahl, Anna Reoina Prahl den gode og uglemte Leonhard Passavants
1796. Datter (here two lines are illegible). . . Hun blev
l6dt Maii 1775. Yndig-munter-venlig-
god-zirede Livet, ach, ikkun 4 lustra. Den mflrke 2 November
1795 borttog fra os en troe-from-god 0m-Kiaerlig Veninde-
Syster-Datter-Moder og Hustrue og knuste vort Haab og
Glflede. S.T.T.L.
" Anna Begina Prahl, daughter of the good and estimable Leonard
Passavant. She was charming, gay, kind, and gracious, but,
alas, her beauty was only spared her for two decades. On the
dark 2nd of Nov. 1795 she was taken from us. She was a true,
pious, tender and loving friend, sister, daughter, mother, and
wife. She has crushed our hope and joy."
222
Serial
numbor.
(1)
Date.
(2)
2425 22nd Jan.
1800.
2426 20th April
1812.
2427 9th July
1812.
2428 23rd April
1814.
2429 15th Nov.
1832.
2430 30th June
1849.
TANJORE DISTRICT — cont.
Name. Inscription.
(3) (4)
OLD DANISH CEMETERY, TRANQUEBAR --corrt.
Joshua Mathias Joshua Mathias Kitson. Born 21st Sept. 1798 and died
Kit son. 22nd Jan. l$i)0.
Obviously a child's tomb.
Kitson was a merchant at large and married Metta, a daughter of
Colonel Muhldorff.
In July 1803 on their passage to Europe Joshua Kitson, Esq.,.
late of Tranquebar, his wife and child died.
James KitJbn Esq. Lieut, and Adjt., 12th N. Regiment married
Jane Eliza, 2nd daughter of Joseph Spry, Esq., of Bath on 12th
Jan. 1813.
One Miss Ann Kitson only daughter of Robert Kitson of the Civil
Service married William Aitken on Sept. 6, 1815. (Asiatic
Journal, Mar. 1816.)
William Dumas . . William Dumas, the infant son of Lieutenant Dumas, 3rd
Regiment Native Infantry, aged 1 year and 18 days.
Almost illegible. Lieutenant Henry Dumas 3rd Native Infantry
married Miss Jano Jackson, October 2dth, 1807. He was
cashiered on Feb. 10, 1813.
Another son died at Seringapatam July 7th, 1812.
Agatha Sundt . . Hellig Fred uforstyrret Roe Omsvseve dette Hvilested. Her
slumrer Frue Agatha Sundt fodt den 3die Januar 1740,
gift den 24de Februar 1757 med Hr. Lieutenant Michael
Sundt, dod den 9de Juli 1812. Moder til 9 Born og en talrig
Efterslaegt. Hun var den ommeste Moder, den kierligste
Hustrue, den blideste Veninde, Armodens Trost, Svagheds
og Nodlidenheds Stottestav. Synk o Li vets Soel, ned bag
det rodmendo Vesten ; hisset troner renere Fryd ; hisset
smiler blivende Fred ; hisset lonnes hver elskelig Dyd, og der
skal vi samles igien.
" Sacred peace, and unbroken rest watch over this spot. Here
slumbers Agatha Sundt, born on tho 3rd Jan. 1740, married on the
24th Feb. 1757 to Lieut. Michael Sundt, and died on the 9th July
1812. Mother of nine children and a number of descendants.
She was the tenderest mother, the loveliest wife, the kindest
friend, a comforter of the poor, and a support of the suffering and
infirm. Sink, O sun of life, behind the roseate west : yonder
smiles an everlasting peace, yondor shall every loving virtue be
rewarded, and there shall we all meet."
Muhldorf . . . . (At Tranquebar the lady of Colonel Muhldorf.)
W. C. Stevenson
John Haggard
2431 29th Oct.
1849.
Christian Christo-
pher Eibye.
See No. 2435.
To the memory of Willoughby Carpenter Stevenson born
28th October 1814 died 15th November 1832. "The Lord
gave and the Lord hath taken away : Blessed be the name
of the Lord
John Haggard, Esq., C.S., second son of John Haggard, LL.D.
of Doctor's Commons, London, born 11th October 1823,.
died 30th June 1849.
He joined as a writer in 1843.
William Haggard, 1783-1843, uncle of the deceased, was the grand*
father of Rider Haggard, the novelist, and of Alfred Hinuber
Haggard, late B.C.S.
Her hviler Christian Ciiristoffer Eibye efter en lang og
troe Tieneste af 21 Aar som Skolelserer ved Missionen sanit
Klokker til Zion's Kirke i Tranquebar. F6d den Iste August
1795, dod den 29de October 1849. Fred vaere med hans-
St6v.
" Here rests Christian Eibye. He served the Mission honestly 21
years as schoolmaster and was sexton at Zion Church, Tranquebar*
He was born on the 1st Aug. 1795, died on the 29th Oct. 1849.
Peace be with his dust."
A memorial tablet to him in the Seminary at Tranquebar. Accord-
ing to the Madras Almanao if 1850, he died at KaraikaL
223
TANJORE DISTRICT — cont.
Serial JL»ate. . Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) < 4 >
OLD DANISH CEMETERY, TRANQUEBAR — cont.
'3432 1849 Eliza Birsay. Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Birsay, Mrs. Ann Eglan and
Ann Eglan Mrs. Sophia Lund, daughters of the late Colonel John James
Sophia Lund. Durand of the Honorable East India Company's Service,
1849.
Praises on tombs are vainly spent,
A man's good name is his best monument.
Nicholas Birsay, Master Attendant at Nogapatam, married Miss
Eliza Durand, March 18th, 1813, and died at Madras, July 25th,
1835. Ann Durand married William Eglan, September 29th,
1810. He died Master Attendant of Cochin, October 1st, 1836
(see No *797).
2433 8th Sept. P. H. K. Wodsohow. P. H. K. Wodschow, Kammerraad, formerly a member of the
jgg 7 " Danish Government at Frederichnagore in Bengal and late
of Tranquebar ; was born in 1774, 21st June, and died in
1857, 8th September.
He married, November 1823, Caroline Matilda, daughter of Colonel
Strieker. On 20th Oct. 1811, Capt. Thomas Smyth 14th N.I.
married Miss Strieker.
2434 22nd Mar. F. 0. Biggwither . . Sacred to the memory of Francis Ordb Biggwithbr Civil
1870 ' " Surgeon of Tranquebar, born 5th September 1838, died 22nd
March- 1870. 4< In the midst of life, we are in death : of
whom may we seek for succour but of thee 0 Lord."
Little cemetery outaide Fort Gate ; also in the Zion Church wall
whore name is spelt Biggewither.
2435 18th April Maria Barbara Maria Barbara, widow of E. W. Stevenson, second daughter
1872 Stevenson. of Colonel Mathias Jurgen Von Muhldorf, Royal Engineer of
Denmark, born in 1791, died 18th April 1872.
E. W. Stevenson was Master Attendant at Porto Novo and Cuddalore,
where he died in 1 823. There is a tradition that Colonel Muhldorff
was a son of Frederick V of Denmark and aided the Crown Prince
and the Queen-Mother in their conspiracy to depose Struensee,
Christian VH's Prime Minister and Court Physician, and that
he was sent abroad in consequence. Struensee intrigued with
Christian VH's Queen Caroline Matilda, grand-daughter of George
II. He was beheaded, and she retired to Zell with George Ill's
permission. Muhldorff was born, December 5th, 1750 in Copen-
hagen. He received a military training and was commissioned
as a Second-Lieutenant 1769. He applied 1777 for the post as
Engineer of the fortress Tranquebar, and was in November 1777
made a Premier Lieutenant. He sailed from Denmark Dec. 9,
1777 on the " Rigernes Onske " and arrived at Tranquebar July
23, 1778. Here he spent his life, being vised both in military and
civil appointments. In 1791 he was made a Major and Command-
ing Officer of the Tranquebar troops. He became a member
of Council 1792. He was sent to Denmark 1801 to report the
capitulation of 1801. He retired 1804 and went home 1805, but
returned in May 1807 and arrived at Tranquebar Dec. 31, 1807.
He married Jan. 27, 1780 Maria Barbara Sundt (daughter of Michael
Sundt and Agathe, nee Lem). She was born about 1765, and died
June 24, 1814 (" 49 years old "). They had 14 children, of whom
at least six died as infants.
In his old house at Tranquebar is a curious arch, evidently a copy of
gome arch in Denmark, with the inscription, " D.E.M.E.P. anno
1791," and Muhldorff used to say that these five letters were the
initial letters of the sentence which was the secret of his life. He
died July 23rd, 1836, and lies buried in what was then called
the New Cemetery in a nameless tomb near his wife, Agatha nee
Sundt, whose sister married Blucher's brother. Muhldorff had
a brother Count Danneskjold Samso, a title so ancient that he
was considered the senior nobleman in Denmark. The Count's
estate was named Holme-gaard. The Muhldorff blood runs in
several Madras families through the Colonel's five daughter*
/see Nos. 1139, 1246 and 2534).
224
TANJORE DISTRICT — cont.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(I) (2) (3) (4)
OLD DANISH CEMETERY, TR AN QUE BA R — cont.
2436 19th Nov. E. B. Stevenson . . Major E. B. Stevenson 46th Madras Native Infantry born
1872. at Porto Novo, 27th November 1810, died at Tranquebar
19th November 1872.
Edward Boyd Stevenson was the son of E. W. Stevenson and his
wife Maria n£e Muhldorff. Peter Boyd, his god-father, was a free
merchant at Cuddalore. His sister Henrietta Jane Stevenson
married, July 18th, 1826, Colonel J. S. Frasor afterwards Resident
at Hyderabad (see Nos. 1246 and 1261).
2437 22n 1 Aug. A. M. Helmioh . . Sacred to the memory of Anna Marta Helmich, relict of the
1881 late Major Antony Helmich of the Danish Army ; born 4th
April 1800. Died 22»J. August 1881.
" I know that my Redeemer liveth and that He shall stand
at the latter day upon the earth."
Her daughter Charlotte Eliza Helmich married [by] Royal licence
Lt. W. E. Pascoe, 12 M.N.I, on 20th September 1841.
2438 26th Jan. Arabella Due . . In loving memory of a truly noble and good woman Arabella
1889 Due who was born -it Tranquebar on 30th March 1820 and
died there on 26th January 1889. Erected by Colonel and
Mrs. Bowness Fischer.
2439 20th Feb. C. A. Ouchterlony. Rev. C. A. Ouchterlony, L. E. L. M. born in Stockholm, 12th
1889. October 1826, died in Tranquebar 20th Feb. 1889.
Salige aero de doede som i Herranom doe hserefter ; ja,
Anden Saeger, att de skola hvila sig fran sitt arbete, ty
deras gerningar fselja dem efter. Upp. 14, 13.
The text is in Swedish. The tomb is in the little cemetery outside the
Fort gate.
GOANESE CHURCH IN TRANQUEBAR FORT.
44 Tranquebar had in 1663 a Catholic Church situated near the principal gate of tho Fort. Tt is thoro still
Ringoltaube visited this Church in Tranquebar 44 close to our house " dedicated to Xavier. Father Lauronco an
Italian and a worthy man was in charge Jan. 17, 1805. From it he wont to the compound of tho Moravian
Mission in formor days — in other hands now — a lovely gethsemane (Father Laurence, superior of tho Roman Catholic
Church died Feb. 1810).
2440 28th Mar. Francisca Abbestee. Hie jacent duae sorores Francisca Abbestee nata Lange d,
1779 and Rosalia Stevenson. XV Jan. MDCCXLIX, obiit d. XXVIII Mart. MDCCLXXIX ;
5th June et Rosalia Stevenson, nata Tournac d. IV. Jun. MDCCL1V
1782. obiit d v. Jun MDCCLXXXII.
Abbestee, who married Miss Lange, December 28th, 1768, was Chief
Justice of Tranquebar, 1761-75. Miss Tournac married firstly
Colonel Johan Jorgen Fischer, member of Council, Tranquebar who
died at Tranquebar Aug. 15, 1778 and whose sister Wendela
(1730-61) bocame the first wife of the Rev. J. Z. Kiernander
(1710—99). She married secondly on Feb. 24, 1779 Mr. Edvard
Stevenson, merchant in Tranquebar, the brother of Daniel
Stevenson (1748 — 1806). and of Major-General James Daniel
Stevenson, a friend of the Duke of Wellington's, who fought at
Seringapatam and died February 14th, 1806 (see No. 1261), A
Mrs. Tournac and child were among those at Calcutta who escaped
to the ships at Fulta and were there in July 1750. John Lewis
Tournac, her husband, sent provisions to Fulta for the English
and seems to have been a French subject.
225
TANJORE DISTRICT — oojU.
Serial Date. Ma me. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
NEGAPATAM SALT PANS.
These tombstones are now embedded in the walls of the Salt Factory, whioh occupies the site of a Dutch Cemetery.
2441
2442
2443
2444
3rd April
1667.
Cornelis Classen
2445
19th Aug.
1673.
14th Feb.
1680.
5th May
1684.
7th April
1698.
11th June
1770.
Isaac Wblsingh
Van Hoobn.
Elisabet Mynta
Reynier van
TENDYCK.
Buy-
Ian Corte.
Gerard Corte.
Hier leyt begraven Cornelis Claesen jongeling in 83m leven
opperstiennan van Amsterdam out 26 iaren overleden den
3en April 1667.
The oldest tomb in the district.
Hier onder leght begraven Sr. Isaac Welsinoh Van Hoorn,
in syn leven coopman ten dienste der E. Compa tot
Nagapatnam. Alwaar syn E. overleden is op den 19en
Auguati Ao. 1673 out 37 iaren.
Hier lyet begraven Elisabet Mynta doghter van den sergeant
Ian Mynta, is geboren den 27 September Ao 1677 overleden
den 14 February 1680.
Hier leyt begraven den eersamen Reynier van Buytendyok
van Dort in syn leven coopman en guarnisoen boekhouder der
stadt Nagapatnam in den Heere ontslapen den Vn Mey Ao
1684 oudt synde omtrent 64 iaren.
Dort is an abbreviation for Dordrecht.
Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas regumqe
turres, o beate Sexti, vitse summa brevis spem nos vetat
inchoare longam. Hac Cortens patris filiique maniis est.
Hioronder leyt begraven den E. Ian Corte gebooren tot De-
venter den 25 October Ao 1650 in syn leven oppercoopman in
dienst de E. Compa en hooft administrateur deser ouste
Cormandel en overleden hier den 7 April Anno 1698.
Mitsgaders desselfs zoon Gerard Corte geboren tot Pallea-
katta den 12 November Ao 1687 in zyn leven adsistent in
opgemelten dienst en den 11 Juny 1770 overleden.
This Horatian quotation (Odes 1. 4. 13) is the only pagan reminis-
cence found on Christian tombs in India. It appears on the
gravestones of John Carvalho (1723) at Fort St. George and of
John Ross, merchant (1751) in the Charnock mausoleum at
Calcutta, where an English rendering is appended from Francis'
translation (the fathor of Sir Philip Francis) : " With equal paoe
impartial fate Knocks at the palace and the cottage gate ; Nor
should our sum of life extend Our growing hopes beyond their
destined end." Jan Corte married (1) Maria Lindeborn who died at
Port Novo on Jan. 27, 1686 aetat 27. 6. 1. and (2) Elizabeth
Turenhout widow of Caspar Nilo, who died 17 Nov. 1687. c/.
Urquhart's Oriental Obituary Vol. Ill, p. 162 : " To the memory
of John Campbell M. D. Assistant Surgeon, in the Service of the
Honble E.I. Co. who was carried off by a fever at the General
Hospital, Presidency, on the 19th Nov. 1803 at the early age of 24.*'
KARICOP CEMETERY, NEGAPATAM.
The Dutch Church at Negapatam is a Government Church vested in the Madras Government by right of capture. The
Wesleyans eventually got possession of the said large Church and were not ousted without difficulty at a much later period.
(Taylor, p. 219). In 1758 Kohlhoff and Schwartz visited the Dutch Lagarette at Negapatam and preached in the town to
nearly 200 Germans of different ranks.
The Dutch Governor promised to build a Church for native Christians which he did a year later. Thirty-two pagodas the
Dutch (including soldiers) gave to the missionaries.
There is a story of one of the largest tombs her© that it contains a Dutch Sea Captain buried sitting in his ohair and hung i n
chains (J. IngUs, Salem 31st August 1906).
Hier leyt begraven den eersamen Wilm. Groenegbtjs, in syn
leven ondercoopman en secretaris der stadt Nagapatnam,
overleden den 8n Augusti 1667, out 34 jaren. (Coat of arms.)
Hier leyt begraven den eerweerdigen Joannes Kbt/yie, predi-
kant in de gemeente Jesu Christy, overleden den 23 April Ao.
1669, ottdt zynde ontrent 96 jaren, en Cornelis Dubyn, in
zyn leven ondercoopman in's Comps dienst, obit 6en Octobr.
1685 cud zynde 40 jaren.
2446
2447
8th Aug.
1667.
23rd April
1669 and
6th Oct.
1685.
Willbm Gboenbgeus.
Joannes Kruyie.
Cornelis Dubyn.
vol. n— 29
226
TANJORE DISTRICT — cont.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
Name.
Inscription.
(2)
2448
17th April
1670.
(3) (4)
KARICOP CEMETERY, NEGAPATAM— cont.
Elizabeth Hayman.
2449 6th Sept. Geebtbuyda Van
1670 and Suchtelen.
25th Jan. Mabgabita
1685. Dobmieux.
2450 21st Jan. Claba Montenaok
J 677.
2451 4th Deo. Anna Pyl
1677.
2452 14th July Angenieta Bosch
1679.
2453 12th Aug. Jacob* £iygens
1680.
2454
25th June
1705.
Anthonia Van Stee-
LANT AND FAMILY.
Hier leyt bograven d'eerste hier overleden Hollandse vrouwe
Elisabet Depape, huysvrouwe van de boechouder Jacob
Hayman, in den Heere ontslapen den 17 April Ao. 1670,
out 20 jaren. (Coat of arms.)
" The first Dutch woman who died here."
Hier leyt begraven de eerbare Juffrouw Geertruyda Pietersz,
huysvrouw van den vendrich Jan Martensz Van Suchtelen 9
in den Heere ontslapen den 6n Septembr., 1670, out zynde
28 jaren. Hier leyt oock begraven haer oudste dochter
Margarita Martensz huisvrouw van Abraham Dobmieux,
overleden den 25en Jan. 1685, out 21 jaren en 5 dagen
(Coat of arm*.)
Hier loyt begraven d'eerbare juffrouw Clara Reynierse,
huysvrouw van den opperooopman Pieter Montenaok, in
den Heere ontslapen den 21 January Ao. 1677, out synde
22 jaren. (Coat of arms.)
Hier leyt begraven Anna Catharina Pyl dochter van den
Capitain Philip Pyl, geboren den 28en Augusti, gestorven
den 4en December 1677.
Hier rust Angenieta Nolet huysvrou van Do. Lucas Bosch,
predicant in de gemeynte Josu Christi ter stede alhier, geb-
oren op Neira in Banda den 24en Juny 16.^0 en oxerleden
den 14en July 1670, oud synde 29 jaeren en 20 dagen. Hie
expectat cum fidelibus resurrect ionem carnis.
Hier leyt begraven Jacoba Vincenius, huysvrouw van den
coopman en secunde deser stede Jacob Huygens, is geboren
opt Eyland Ceylon in de stadt Gale den 2 January 1654 en
gostorven do 12en Augusti 1680.
Jacob Huygens gob. Middleburg 3 Apr. 1643 ; married on 18 Sept.
1675 Jacoba Vincenius of Galle widow of Arnoldus (?) van
Oossohot, Predikant.
Dees tombe ende sark hier onder sig besluyten
Mevrouw van Steelants lyk met vier van hare spruyten,
9 T Geen aan haar stervlyk was word in dit grav tot stov,
9 T Onstervlyk is by God en singd zyn heylig lov.
Hioronder legd begraven d'eerbare deugd en zedenryke
m'y vrouwe Anthonia Nilo, zaliger gemalinne van den Edle
Heer Joannes Van Steelant, Gouverneur en Directeur
deser custe Chormandel met den Resorte van dien, geboren
tot Palliacatta don 21 Zeptr Ao. 1677 en in bet craambedde
den 13en Novbr Ao. 1709 tot Nagapatnam in den Heere,
ontslapen, oud 32 jaren, 1 maand en 23 dagen, hebbende in
den arm haar edles teder jonge zoontje, kort vocrhaar over-
lyden dood ter wereld gebragt. Benevens haar edles zoonen
Pieter Van Steelant, geboren tot Nagapatnam den 16
January Ao. 1705, en overleden ter gemelte plaatse den 26
Juny daaraam ; Casper Van Steelant geboren tot Masuli-
patnam den 24 Augty Ao, 1 702, en overleden tot Nagapatnam
den 20 February Ao. 1707 ; en Gaspar Van Steelant, den
tweeden van dien naem geboren tot Nagapatnam den 9
September Ao. 1707 en aldaar ook overleden den 29 Sep-
tember Ao. 1709.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
TANJOBE DISTRICT— coni.
Name.
Inscription.
2455
26th Aug.
1709.
(3) <*>
KARICOP CEMETERY, NEGAPATAM — cont.
A Very large domed tomb. There is an esoutcheon in the church
to this lady, A female figure is represented standing on. a
nautUus on the sea, and a coronet surmounts the coat of arms
inscribed u Nata 21 September Ao 1687, obiit 13 November 1709.
The verses hero run: 44 This tombstone covers the body
of Lady Van Steelant with four of her offspring. What was
mortal of her becomes dust in this grave. What was immortal
is with God and sings his holy praise."
Een vrouw die na veel smart
En 4ualen ons begaf
Rust ouder desen serk ;
En wagt net ordeel af .
Hier legt begraven d'eerba:e juffw Cathabina Van Hartsbbbk,
huysvrouw van den boekhouder S . Jan Gbbbit Hbyb,
geboren tot Leyden den 15 September Ao. 1663, en overleden
tot Nagapatnam den 26 Augusty Ao. 1709, nud 45 jar n, 11
maanden cn 11 da gen.
Cathabina Hbyb.
2156
1699 to
1709.
Susanna Van dbb
Bubo. Antho-
nius Clement.
Cathabina Van
Coulstbb.
2457
14th Oct.
1710.
Mabia
Vos,
ISAAKSZ DB
In dese gravkelder rusten de overgebragte gebeenten uyt't
oude kerckhov van Susanna Van Coulstbb, huysvrouw van
Pibteb Van deb Bubo, toenmaels onderooopman en cassier ;
nu opperooopman, tweede deses Gouvernements en
hoofd-administrateur aihier, is overleden den 27 Juny Anno
1699, out 39 jaren, 9 maenden en 29 dagen. Alsmede van
Anthonius Clement bedienaar des godlyken woords te
deser kuste gestorven den Mey Anno 1706 mitsgader ook het
leyk van Cathabina Henbiks de wedwe van Jobis Van
Coulsteb, weleer opperkoopman en opperhooft in den dienst
en wegens d'E. Compe int ryk van Pguw, overleden den
23en October Anno 1709, oud ontrent 70 jaren.
" In this vault rest the bones which were brought over from the
old graveyard of Susanna Van Coulster, etc."
Hier onder legt begraven M'juffrouw Mabia Isaaksz, weduwe
van d'heer Reynieb Jacob De Vos, in zyn leven Capitain
Luitenant en hoofd der militie te Palliacatta, geboren den
9en September Ao. 1647 in Pegue, en overleeden tot Nagapat-
nam den 14en October Ao. 1710, oud 63 jaren, 1 mand en 6
dagen.
It is curious to find the rank of Captain-Lieutenant among the Dutch
as among the 'English. Lord Valentia found this lady (Feb. - 7,
1803) a very civil and respectable old Dutchwoman. " A most
excellent dinner was prepared and she joined me afterwards in a
bottle of her own madeira and my own claret. She spoke English
and was a very pleasant companion". She had a descendant who
kept an inn at Sadras. where Colonel Welsh stayed in 1802.
" Nona Mallee or Miss Isaac ka is one of the greatest curiosities
in the East. This enormous spinster had formerly weighed 21
stone ; but at this period she was by severe illness reduced to 15 ;
and she shortly afterwards paid the debt of nature. Having
relations at Negapatam, she had occasionally performed the
journey in a palanquin made expressly for her use, and, it was
asserted, was then carried by no less than 36 bearers ; while other
Europeans had but twelve, and many a fat Brahmin was actually
moved about at the same rate by four; the sacred character
of the latter no doubt lightening the apparent weight ; but could
an European mountain, though a young one, which her native
appellation (Nona Mallee) indicated, be carried by fewer sable
and imbecile emmets ? This young lady kept the inn or hotel at
Sadras, where she lived weU herself, and never starved her cut*
tomers ; Dut being in the habit of favouring them with her oom-
pany at meals, the sight of her shrivelled form, her skin hanging
in flakes, for all the world like the hide of a young rhinoceros,
was not exactly calculated to improve our appetites at the
dinner table."
vol. n— 29a
228
Serial
number.
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Date.
(2)
TANJORE DISTRICT — cant.
Name.
Inscription.
2458
2nd Deo.
1712.
2459
2460
1st July
1713
20th Jan.
1715.
(3) (4)
KARICOP CEMETERY, NEGAPATAM — cont.
Diva Mabia Bebnabd. Nascentes morimur, finisque ab origine pendent. Hier onder
legd begraven, d'eerbare deugd en zedenryke M'vrouwe
Dina Maria Leydecker, zalr. gemalinne van den Edle Heer
Daniel Bebnabd, Gouverneur en directeur deser custe
Chormandel met den reeorte van dien ; geboren tot Batavia
den 19en September Ao 1687, en in het kraambedde den 2en
December Ao 1712 tot Nagapatnam in den Here ontslapen,
oud 25 jaren, 2 maanden en 13 dagen.
Heir rust heer Bernard's waarde vrouw,
Die uyt Leydecker's huys gesproten,
Aan hem verbonden door do trouw,
Heeft voortgebragt vyf jonge loten.
Dina Maria van haar jeugd
Becroond met's hemels ryken zegen,
Vercierd met zedigheyd en deugd,
Opregt en vroom in al haar wegen,
Volstanding in 't geloof voor God,
Is haren geest verhuysd naar boven,
Versekerd van haar zalig lot,
Om Hem in heerlykheyd te loven.
Nog legd hier begraven haar edles tweede zoontje genaamd
Abraham Bebnabd, geboren tot Nagapatnam den 27en Aug.
Ao 1711, en aldaar ook overleden den 1 July Ao 1713, oud 1
jaar, 10 maanden en 4 dagen.
Hier legt begraven d'E. Willem Caulieb, in syn leven
coopman ins Comps dienst, en gewesen opperhoofd ten
Comptoire Palicol, geboren tot Palleacatta den 22en Augusto
Ao 1658, obyt tot Nagapatnam den 20en January 1715, oud
56 jaren, 9 maanden en 28 dagen.
Son of Governor Jaques Caulier (No. 1518). Ho went as ambassador
to Groten Mogol with Heer Bacoherus. He married Maria Fron-
tenius who died at Masulipatam, Sept. 27, 1683. *' Zijn tweede
vrowe, de naam is my ontgaan, stierf in de algemeyne pest-tijd
tot Mazulipatam in de maand Mey 1687 " (Havant, I, p. 180).
His wife Lucia Popta Caulier is buried at Palcole, July 28th, 1702.
cavalier mounted on a caracoling
Abraham Bebnabd
Willem Caulieb
The coat of arms shows
horse.
2461
2462
2463
2nd April
1717.
29th Jan.
1718.
20th Sept.
1718.
Jacobus Van deb Hier onder rust het lyck van den Eerw. Jacobus Van deb Vorm,
Vobm. predickant eerst in Amboina daerna tot Malakka en laatst tot
Nagapatnam, gebooren tot Hoorn 18 Decemb. Ao 1673,
overleden tot Nagapatnam den 2en April Ao 1717.
Mighiel Otsen . . Hier legt begraven Sr. Mighiel Gysen, van Stetteyn, in zyn
leven boekhouder getrouwlyk dienst doende in de negotie
pakhuysen al hier, overleden den 29en January Ao 1718, oud
zynde geweest ontrend 62 jaren.
Cathabina Michiel Mors omnes finit poenas, mors omnia solvit vincula. Hier
Renn. kgd begraven Juffw Cathabina Francina De Soute,
zalr. huysvrouw van Michiel Renn, eerste opperchirurgyn
deeee Cormandelse Gouvernement's nata tot Middelburg in
Zeeland den 5den Augusty Ao 1690, obyt alhier tot Nagapat-
nam den 20en September Ao 1718, oud 28 jaren, 1 maand en
15 dagen.
Onse dagen zyn als een voorbygaande schaduwe, Ps. 144 : 4.
Hier rust het kout gebeent van Renn's beminde vrouw,
Met wien hy maar een jaar in d* egt heeft mogen leven.
Zy liot na korte vreugd haar man in bittren rouw,
Met een voldragen vrugt hem hebbende begeven.
229
Serial
number.
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Date.
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Name.
-cant.
Inscription.
2464
2465
15th Aug.
1719.
13th June
1720 and
22nd Mar.
1721.
PlETBR ROOSELAAB. .
2466
27th July
1720.
2467
2468
23rd Sept.
1721.
5th Nov.
1722.
(3) W
KARICOP CEMETERY, NEGAPATAM — cont.
Haar tyd was als een droom, haar end in barenswee,
Dog haren geest verhuysd uyt dit gewoel naar boven
Heeft nu in plaats der aard by God een beeter stee,
Om daar in heerlykheyd Zyn heylig naam te loven.
Hier legd begraven Sr. Pieter Rooselaar soon van den edJen
heer Raad extraordinaris van India, Pieter Rooselaar, in
syn leven boekhbiider op't schip Koning Karel, geboren in de
provintie van Amboina den 27en July anno 1692, overladen
hier tot Nagapatam den 15en Augu«-ti Ao 1719.
Hier onder rust het lyk van jufvrouw Adriana Westreenen,
zalr huysvrouw van Hendrik Haak, onderkoopman en
cassier te deser hooftplaatse Nagpatnam, gebooren den lOen
October 1699 en overleden den 13en Jun}' 1720 ter steede
voormelt, oud 20 jaaren, 8 niaanden en 3 dagen. Nog is
hier bygezet het lyk van haar sustertje Sara Joanna West-
reenen gebooren tot Mazulipatnam don 25en September
1719, en overleeden tot Nagapatnam den 22 Maart 1721, oud
1 jaar, 5 maanden en 27 dagen.
Hier onder legd begraven jufvr. Johanna Lonius, wed.
wylen den E. Jan Martensz, in zyn leven coopman en
opperhoofd van't Casteel Geldria tot Palliacotta, gebooren
tot Tegenepatnam in het jaar 1683, den 23 Maart, en alhier
overleden den 27 July Ao 1720, oud 37 jaren, 9 maanden en
9 dagen.
Tegenepatnam is tho name of the old Dutch factory at Cuddalore.
Adriana Cathakina Hier legt begraven Adriana Catharina Pla, dogter van den
Adriana Westreenen
Haak.
Sara Joanna
Westreenen.
Johanna Martensz.
Pla.
Joan Immens
2469
22nd July
1723.
Alida Burgers
Oi
heer Adriaan Pla, koopman en fiscaal tot Nagapatnam,
geboren den 29en May Ao 1721 en overleden den 23en
September desselven jaars.
Zaligh syn do dooden die in den Heer sterven.
Dees zark bedekt het leyk van Immens, die in leven
Kon aan zyn evenmensch veel vergenoeging geven ;
Nu rust het lichaam hier en werd tot nietig stoff,
Terwyl de ziel omhoog zingd Gode eeuwig loff.
Hier leyt begraven den ondercoopman Joan Immens, in zyn
leven tweede pakhuysmeester te deser stede Nagapatnam,
alhier geboren den 7en Maart Anno 1680, en in den Heere
ontslapen Sen November Anno 1722, oud 42 jaren, 7 maanden
en 28 dagen.
*' Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. This tombstone covers
the body of Immens, who in his life could give much pleasure
to his neighbour. Now his body rests here, and becomes worth,
less stuff, while his soul sings God's eternal praise."
Hier leyd begraven Juffr. Alida Burgers, huysvrouw van
Michiel Gallart, ondercoopman en pakhuysmeester alhier,
gebooren tot Amsterdam den 15en Maart Ao 1682 en over-
leeden den 22 July Ao 1723, oud zynde 41 jaren, 4 maanden en
7 dagen.
Alida Burgers lyk
Rust onder dese steen ;
BW ziel in't hemelryk
Bevryd van't aards geween,
Singd Godes heylio loff.
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(4)
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2470
28th Sept.
1726.
PlETER BOWBYN
2471
20th May
1727.
Leonard De Bisser,
2472
14th Oot.
1729.
Maria Van der Tyd.
2473
2474
2475
26th Feb.
1732.
24th Jan,
1733.
30th Dec.
1736.
Wilhelm Van
Zyll.
Adriaan Pla
Jacobus de Jonoh.
Anna de Jongh.
Geertruyda
Elliot.
Fredrek Elliot.
In't algemeen verrysen
Sal sy met lyf en ziel,
Eeuwig haar Schepper prysen.
Michael Gallart was, in 1737, chief of Puiicat, where he buried a
wife Anna Margaretha Moller, born at the " Caab de Goede Hoop/*
The crest is a* cock (Gallus).
Onder desen sark legd begraven Pieter Bowbyn, in syn leven
cipier in den dienst der E. Compe te deser hoofdplaatse,
geboren tot Sadraspatnam den Sen April Ao 1691, overleden
den 28en September Ao 1726, oud 35 jaren, 5 maanden en
20 dagen.
Cipier " Jailer.'*
Hier legt begraven Leonard De Bisser, in syn leven boekhou-
dor en dispencier in dienst der E. Compe te deser stede,
geboren tot Portnovo den 27en October Ao 1687, en overle-
den alhier den 20 Mey Ao 1727.
De wederwaardichoen,
Die ik had in myn leven
Zyn lindloos veel geweest,
Dog nu my God komt geven
Te rusten van myn doen,
Dank zy den Opperheer,
Myn ziel, dien Hy my schonk,
Is heden by Hem weer.
" The vicissitudes whioh I had in my life have been endless and
many. But since God has granted me rest from my doings,
thanks be to the Almighty. The soul that He gives me, is to-day
with Him again."
Hier onder rust Maria Cornelia Wicchelhuysen, in haar leven
dierbaare Wederhelfdt van den Cormandelsen predicant
Dirk Jan Van der Tyd, op een voorbeoldige wyse in den
Heere ontslapen op den Hen Octob. Ao. 1729. Sy sagh het
eerste light te's Hertogenbosh den 31 Maart Ao. 1686 en
heeft dus geleeft 43 jaaren, 6 maanden, 14 dagen. Exitus
acta probat. Van der Tyd, Boek Dale, Overbeek, Van
Wynegen, Van den Werue, Van Mildert, Ketelaar, Van
Wellendamme, Van Snaeyers. Tempera teTempori.
These names are each written under coats of arms at the head of the
tombstone There aro similar slabs among the Dutch graves at
Colombo. Hertogenbosh or Sartogcnbos (No. 2853) is the modern
Boisleduc, on tho borders of Luxemburg.
Wilhelm Van Zyll, van Amstrdm, geb. 19 Juny Ao 1675,
overl. 26 Feb. Ao 1732, oud 56 jaren, 8 maand, 7 dag.
Hier legt begraven Adriaan Pla, soon van den Weledelen
Agtbaren heer Adriaan Pla, Chormandels gouverneur en
directeur tot Nagapatnam, geboren den 16en December Ao
1732, overleden den 24 Janry Ao 1733.
Onse dagen op aarde zyn als eene schaduwe. I Chron, 29,
15. Hier onder rusten den Eerw. Predikant Dom.
Jacobus de Jonoh, natus tot Wolgda den 14 Aug. Ao 1674,
et obiit te deser stede Nagapatnam den 5 Novbr. Ao 1725
zyn Eerw. egtgenoot mjuff. Anna Jacob a Slopers,
geboren t' Amsterdam den 11 Decbr. Ao 1674, overleden
ook hier ter stede den 31 Aug. Ao 1721, derselver dogter,
M'juff. Geertruyda Cathabina de Jonoh, huysvr!
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TANJORE DISTRICT — cant.
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number.
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Date.
(2)
Name.
(3)
Inscription.
(4)
KARICOP CEMETERY, NEGAPATAM — cont.
van den E. heer Fkedbik Elliot, oppercoopman en hoofd-
administrateur deses Chormandelsen Gouvernements, ge-
boren tot Franiker den 18 Aug. Ao 1698, alhier in den Heere
ontslapen den 28 Aprl Ao 1735, en den laastgenoemden
heer Fredrik Elliot, geboren t' Utregt primo October Ao
1692, en mede hier overleden den 30 Decmbr. Ao 1736.
2476
2477
2478
2479
10th Aug.
1737.
7th June
1738.
4th Oct.
1741.
18th June
1743.
Maria Franks
Catharina
Mossel.
Johanna
Elizabeth Francina
Van Son.
Adriana Mossel
2480
13th Mar.
1744.
Galenus Mersen.
Maria Clasina
Mersen.
2481
31st Jan.
1747.
Jan Keyser.
Adriana Keyser.
2482
2483
21st Nov.
1752.
24th Feb.
1753.
Cornnblis Van Son.
Pieter Van Son
Hier legt begraven Juffw. Maria Catharina Sonmans, van
Willis, in leven huysvrouw van den E. Manhaften Jan
Franke, Capitain Luytent der Honorable Militie tot Naga-
patnam, geboren den 27 April Anno 1709, overleden den 10
Augusty Ao 1737, oud 28 jaren, 3 maanden en 13 dagen.
Catharina Johanna Mossel, dogter van Jacob Mossel,
oppercoopman, secunde van Chormandel en hoofdadministra-
teur tot Nagapatnam, geboren den 20en Augustus Ao 1732,
overleden den 7en Juny Ao 1738, rust hier na den lighaame,
terwyl hare ziel zig in God verlustigt.
Elizabeth Francina Van Son, dogter van den E. Pieter Van
Son, onderkoopman en factuurhouder tot Nagapatnam,
geboren den 14en Augustus Ao 1740 en overleden den 4en
October Ao 1741.
D'Edele vrouwe Adriana Appels zaliger, egtgenoot van den
Wei Edelen heer Jacob Mossel, Raad extraordinair van
Nederlands India, gouverneur en directeur tor custe Chor-
mandel, gebooren te Batavia den 13en November 1714 heeft
haare ziele den Heere opgeoffert te Negapatnam den 18en
Juny 1743.
Escutcheon in the Church.
Geluckig is het lot
Ter heyl en zaligheyd,
In't ryk der hemelen.
Der kind'ren toebereyd.
Hier onder leggen begraven twee kinderen van den Woled
Agtb. Heer Galenus Mersen, Gouverneur en Directur, te
der custe Chormandel en den resorte van dien, met nam en
Maria Clasina, gebooren tot Mazulipnm den 27en July Ao
1739, hier ter steede overleden den 27en February Anno
1744 ; en Galenus, gebooren tot gemelde Mazulipatnm
den 30en December Ao 1741, en hier overleden den 13en
Maart Anno 1744. (Coat of arms.)
Hier onder rusten de lyken van den E. Jan Keyser, in zyn
leven onder coopman en cassier tot Nagapatnam, gebooren
tot Delft den 2en September Ao 1687, en overleden den 7en
Augustus Ao 1733, en desselvs huysvrouw, juffrouw Adriana
Gromme, mede gebooren tot Delft den 17en July 1682, en
gestorven den 31en January Ao 1747. (Coat of arms.)
Cornnblis Van Son, zoon van den E. Pieter Van Son, op.
percoopman, seounde van Chormandel en hoofdadministra-
teur te Nagapatnam, geboren den 21en November Ao 1752.
Hier onder roosten de lyck van Den E. Pieter Van Son in zyn
leven ondercoopman Secunde van Choromandel enhoofd-
administrateur tot Nagapatnam Geboren en Binnen Dord-
recht den 30 November Ao 1708 en overleden den 24 February
Aol753. t
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Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name. Inscription.
(3) (4)
KARICOP CEMETERY, NEGAPATAM — cont.
2484
23rd June
1753.
Hkndrik Du Bon
Hodie mihi, eras tibi. Hier onder leyd begraven den weled.
geboren heer Hendrik Du Bon, in syn Ed. leven oppercoop-
man, hoofdadministrateur en tweede van de cust Cormandel,.
gebooren te Middeburg in Zeeland, den 23en December Ao-
1718, en overleeden te Nagapatnam den 23en Juny Ao 1753,
oud 34 jaaren en 6 maanden. (Coat of arms.)
2485
19th April
1754.
Carkl Hendriok
Simons.
2486
20th May
1754.
Jan Servat
2487 16th May Anna Catharina
1755. hollebeek bonk.
Anthony Bonk.
Francois Crucius
van Leyden.
Kostelyck is in de oogen des Heeren de dood zyner gunstgenoo-
ten. Psm. 116. Vs. 15. Onder desen zerck rust de E. Carel.
Hendrick Simons, in zyn leven onderkoopman fabricq. en
geswooren landmeeter tot Nagapatnam, gebooren tot Bimi-
lipatnam den 9en October Ao 1714, overleden den 19en April
Ao 1754, oud 39 jaren, 6 maanden en 10 dagen, nevens desself^
drie zoonen, drie dogteren en swagerinne genoomt Barbara
Van de Casteele, voor zyn afsterven mede alhier in den
Heere ontslapen.
He was Junior Merchant, Factor and covenanted Surveyor.
Swagerinne is " sistor-in-law."
Hier onder rusten in den Heere de lyken van den ondercoop-
man en geweesen tweede pakhuysmeester deser steedc Naga-
patnam, Jan Servat, gebooren binnen Amsterdam den
30en July 1717, en overleden den 20en Mey 1754, nevens
desselvs dogtertje van 9 dagen.
Hier legt begraven Mejuffrouw Anna Catharina Hollebeek,
gebooren den 9en November Ao 1724 en overleden den 16en
Mey anno 1755, oud zynde 30 jaaren, 6 maanden en 7 daagen,
benevens desselvs waarde egtgenoot den E. Heer Anthony
Bonk, in zyn E. leeven coopman, eerste pakhuysmeester en
negotie boekhouder tot Nagapatnam, overleeden den 15
Juny 1763 in den ouderdom van 47 jaaren, 8 maanden
en 18 daagen ; en hun Edelens schoonzoon, den E. Francois
Crucius van Leyden, in zyn E. leeven boekhouder en op-
ziender der gemeene werken te Nagapatnam, overleeden
den 25en Mey Ao 1764, in den ouderdom van 23 jaaren, 8
maanden en 30 daagen.
2488 26th Dec. Damasdoll van Hier onder legt begraven den E. Heer. Mr. Damasdoll van
1755. Ouryk. Ouryk, in syn leven advocaat voor de hoven van Holland
en Westvriesland, en van de Nederlandsche geoctroyeerde
Oost Indische Compagnie, coopman en fiscaal deser hoofd-
plaatse, geboren den 22en Augusts Anno 1726, overleden den
26 Decembr Ao 1755, oud 29 jaren, 4 maanden en 4 dagen.
He was advocate for the courts of Holland and West Friesland
and of the Netherlands Chartered E.I. Company and Merchant
and Fiscal of this capital.
2489 6th Nov. Jan Carstens and Hier onder rusten in den Heere d' E. Jan Carstens Warner
1756. Petronella War- van Hamburg, in zyn leven lieutenant ter zee en eqipagie
ner. meester te Nagapm, overleden den 6en Novembr 1756 in
den ouderdom van 57 jaren, 5 maanden en 29 dagen, mits-
gaders, desselvs huysvrouw Petronella Van Bilt van Na-
gapatnam, gestorven den 30en January 1744.
Serial
number.
(»)
2490
Date.
(2)
28th Feb.
1757.
288
TANJORE DISTRICT-*^.
Name. Inscription.
(3)
(4)
KARIOOP CEMETERY, NEGAPATAM— ccwU.
Simeon SotXMAnr. Hier onder legt en rust het leyk van den heer Simeon Sotjmain,
Luoretia
Fbytag.
Van
2491
24th Mar
1757.
Jan Jacob Topander.
2492
11th Nov.
1759.
2493 17th May
1764.
Abraham Jacob Dor-
MIBUX.
Elisabeth Aoatha
Van Teylingen.
in leven opperchirurgyn deses casteels, geboren tot Amsterdam
den 15en Maart Ao 1719, en in den Heere ontslapen alhier
te Nagapatnam den 28en Feby 1757, oud synde 37 jaren,
11 maanden en 13 dagen, en nog bygeset het lyk van syn
Ed's eenigste dogter Lucrbtia Johanna Soumain, huisvrouw
van den Lieutenant Militair Lodbwyk Van Frytao, gebooren
den 17 Juny 1745, en overleden den 22 Maart 1759, oud 13
jaren, 9 maanden en 5 dagen, dus in den bloey harer jaren
hare ziel den Heere haaren Schepper heeft opgeoffert.
Hier onder rust de zoon van den Heer Jacobus Leonardus
Topandbb, onderkoopman, muntmeester en adigaar dezer
buytenstad, in naame Jan Jacob Topandbr jongman, geboren
te Amsterdam den 26en Augustus Anno 1735, en alhier
overleden den 24en Maart Ao 1757, in denouderdom van 21
jaaren, 6 maanden en 28 dagen.
Hier legd begraven S.C.'E. Abraham Jacob Dormibux, in
leven boekhouder en translateur, oud zynde 41 jaaren, 9
maanden en 9 dagen, obiit den 11 Novr Ao 1759.
Hier legt begraven jonkvrouwe Aonbta Elisabeth Agatha
Van Tbylingbn, geboortig te Nagapatnam, dogter van den
Weledelen Agtbaren heere Christian van Tbylingbn,
Gouverneur en Directeur* deser custe Cormandel met dies
resorte, etcet., overleeden den 17en Mey Anno 1764 in den
ouderdom van 1 jaar, 5 maanden en 22 dagen.
In May 1765 Governor Van Teylingen was summoned to appear
before the Dutch authorities at Batavia, but escaped to Madras,
whither he was pursued by his successor Haksteen. An account
of his exploit will bo found in Mrs. Kindersleyhs t4 Letters from
the East Indies " (1777), who mentions that his wife and children
were thrown into prison. He himself was accused of gross oo*
vetousness through which many people at Negapatam had been
ruined. The English Governor Palk befriended him and Mr.
Van Teylingen finally obtained a full release from the Dutch
Government. His coat of arms is in the church. His descendant
J. F. T. Van Teylingen was Surgeon at Tranquebar and died
there in 1873, aged 71.
Hit ton John Westerman Van Teylingen died at Tranquebar on 14th
May 1909 and was interred in the old Danish Cemetery there,
the next day. - He was the last of the Danes that knew anything
of the Danish times and was a staunch Lutheran, his mother's
faith. He studied with Dewan Sir K. Seshadri Ayyar at the
Presidency College and passed F.A. in the 1st class, being second
only to the latter. Afterwards he was an assistant master at
Doveton College* Madras. Mr. Van Teylingen of the Salt depart-
ment, his half-brother and Miss Van Teylingen, his half-sister
were his chief mourners.
2494
2405
21st July
1764.
25th July
1765.
Christiaan Sutton
Johan Hbndbik Dies.
Ch&istiaan Sittton, gebooren den 4en Dec.«1759, overleeden
den 21 July 1764. (Coat of arms.)
Hodie mihi eras tibi. Hier onder legt begraven den E. Man-
haflben Heer Johan Hendrik Dies, van Hildesheim, in syn
E. Manhaftens leeven Capitain Militair, gebooren den 30en
January Ao 1714, en overleeden den 25en July 1765, oud 51
jmmo, 6 maanden en 25 daagen.
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Name.
. Inscription.
(3) (4)
KARICOP CEMETERY, N EGAPAT AM— cont.
Constantia Pibtbrsz. Hier onder rust Mejuffrouw Constantia Charlotta Van
Lwiok huysvrouw van den Heer Cobnblis Pibtbrsz, coopman,
muntmeester en adigaar ter deeser steede Nagapatnam,
gebooren den lOen September Anno 1728, en in den Heere
ontslaapen den lien February Anno 1766, oud zynde 37
jaren, 5 maanden en 1 dagh.
Cornelia Pieterez was presumably brother of the Jacob Pieterez
who married Miss Hutteman (see No. 1627).
CORNBLIS DB VOS
Obdam
Anna Hartman
Daviet Ambrosius
Hartman.
Avibd
Demetrius
Dirk Jansen
William Cairnbs
Maria Pibtbrsz
Hier onder legt begraven den E. Manhaften Heer Cornblis
Db Vob, in desselfs leeven schipper en equipagiemeester
alhier, gebooren te Maaslandsluys den 8en Augustus Anno
1732, overleeden te Nagapatnam den 28en February Anno
1769, oud 36 jaaren, 6 maanden en 20 daagen ; en desselfs
zoon Cornblis Db Vos gebooren den 20en September Anno
1768, en overleeden den 12 en Mey Ao 1769 ; mitsgaders
zyn Es oudere zoon Jacobus Johannes, gebooren den 2en
Maart Anno 1767, en overleeden den 22en May Ao 1769.
Familie Grafkelder van Obdam 1773.
J. Obdam Deputy Secretary to Government and Secretary to the
Court of Justice in the Dutch East India Company's Service, died
September U, 1817. (Asiatic Journal, March 1818.)
Hier rust vrouwe Anna Maria Loisa Winkerman waerde
huysvrouw van Jacob Hartman schipper en equipagie mees-
ter alhier, is geboren den Ien July 1754 en overleden den Ien
September Anno 1777 nevens haer edelens soontje Daviet
Ambrosius is geboren den 14 February Anno 1772 en over-
leden den lOen August Anno 1773.
In hoc sepulcro iacet Novi Campalis Julfalinus Natator do-
minus Avibd filius Macarii Armenus professione mercator
obiit anno salutis 1781 die 24 Maii in urbe Negapatanensi.
Novi Campalis is New Julfa. It is not easy to understand what
Natator means. There is an Armenian name Lakvoriants, which
signifies " Bwimmer." Natator may perhaps be a rendering
of that word into Latin.
Hie sepultus iacet Demetrius Stephani filius mercator Arme-
nus qui diem extremum obit Nagapacam die prima Julii
anno domini 1782.
Hier onder legt begraven de zeer geliefde zoon van Elias Jansen,
genaamt Dirk, gebooren den 8en January 1783 en overleden
den 21 en January 1788 in den ouderdom van 5 jaren en 13
dagen te Nagapatnam.
William Cairnes, Esquire, Major in his Britannic Majesty's
Service. He died in the 45th year of his age. Erected by
his widow. A.D. 1789.
Item Mejufrouw Maria Helena Zboelaar, eer en deugdzaam
huisvrouw van den Heer Gozewyn Christiaan Pibtbrsz,
gebooren den 16 November 1768, en overleeden den 15
September 1791.
Wie is er die den slaap des doods niet eens zal slaapen,
Die in den hyligen wandel is gerust eens om te ont waaken,
Rust, rust dan myn tweede leeven in dit dal,
Verzekerd dat ik uw ook eens volgen zal.
235
TANJORE DISTRICT — cont.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) W
KARICOP CEMETERY, NEGAPATAM — cont.
2505 15th May Robert Clark Lieutenant Robert Clark of the Royal Artillery, aged 30 years.
1793.
2506 9th Mar. Francis Swain Sacred to the memory of Lieut. Colonel Francis Swain Ward,
1794. Ward. who departed this life the 9th March A. u. 1794, aged 60
years.
A well-known artist. He advertised as follows in the " Calcutta
Gazette" of March 4th, 1784. ,l To the lovers of arts in India.
Captain Francis Swain Ward, of the Madras Establishment,
whose paintings and drawings of Gentoo architecture are well
known, and esteemed in Europe and India, having been solicited
by many of his wellwishers to publish his work, which are of
too extensive a nature for him to effect without support, makes
known, through the channel of this paper, his intention of
publishing by subscription twelve views of curious buildings all
taken on the spot by himself. They are proposed to be on a large
scale and will be engraved by the first masters in England. The
price will.be 25 pagodas or 100 rupees for each set. Subscriptions
will be received by Mr. J. M'CUry or at the shop of Messrs.
Williams and Rankin, in Calcutta. The publication consists
of the following Nos. : 1. The grand entrance of the Pagoda of
Seringham. 2. A very rich choultry in Seringham. 3. A view of
the east face of the city of Madura. 4. A view of the south face
of Trichinopoly . 5. Ditto of Teppy Colum Tank near Madura*
6. Ditto of the Bramin's Bath Tank in Chillenbrum. 7. Ditto
of the Rock and Pagoda in Trichinopoly. 8. A view of the
Rocks and Pagoda of Puginary Coil in the Kingdom of Tondy-
man. 9. A view of the Hills and Fort of Vellore, taken from
the Parade in the lower Fort. 10. A view of the Forts of
Doby Ghur, Chuokler Ghur, Canambady Peak and the adjaoent
country taken from the South. 11. A view of an open ohoultry
for worship. 12. Ditto of a choultry for the repose of travellers.
The views are already in England and will be published with all
possible expedition.". The originals of nine of these pictures
(Nos. 1, 2, 3, 6, 6, 7, 8, 11 and 12) are now in the India
Office, presented by the artist in 1773.
Carey's Good old days of the Hon. J. Company : " Of F. 8. Ward
there is little to say except that he was born in London in or about
1750 [?] and gained some reputation as a landscape painter. His
fancy was to delineate old castles and mansions. He travelled
about the countries and made sketches from which he painted
pictures both in oils and in water colours. The E.I. Co. often
generous in such matters took him into employ later on in his life,
and he came out to Calcutta and made many drawings of
temples and tombs ; and perhaps also some of the English houses
such as Belvedere, which if it was as Mrs. Fay says * a perfect
bigon* would have fallen in with Ward's tastes. He died in
1805 [?]."
Francis Swain Ward : — Captain September 16, 1773 ; Lieutenant-
Colonel April 17, 1786 ; pensioned, 1787.
In June 1806, Mrs. Ward, widow of the painter, died at
Negapatam — See No. 2523.
Another Francis Ward: — Ensign November 12, 1782; King's
service 1789.
2507 7th Aug. William Bruce . . Sacred to the memory of the late Captain W. Bruob, who was
1794, Commandant of the 24th Battalion, Native Infantry, aged
[illegible] and departed this life 7th August 1794. Erected
by Lieutenant Robert Munro, Adjutant, 24th Battalion,
Native Infantry.
Urquhart, Vol. I, page 186.
He was a friend of Robt. prme. Colonel Munro (No. 1910) died May
18th, 1817, at Masulipatam.
1821 — Lately in Maitland Street William Fraser Esq., of Madras,
married Mrs. Mary Turner, daughter of the late Captain William
Bruce, Esq., of the H.E.I.C. Service, Madras.
VOL. II— 30A
236
Serial
number.
(i)
Date.
(2)
TANJORE DISTRICT— am*.
Name. Inscription.
(3)
(4)
KARICOP CEMETERY, NEG APATAM- cont.
2508 24th Aug.
1794.
2609 17th Nov.
1794.
2510 26th Dee.
1794.
2511 17th Oct.
1795.
2512 3rd Nov.
1797.
John Urquhart
Margarita Rock
Aratoon Carapiet
Lydia Torriano
Charles William
O'Nril.
2513 9th Aug. Maoabona Piters
1798.
2514 4th Mar. Mary Harris
1799.
2515 27th March Robert Ashe
1799.
2516 16th Jan. R. N. Bbotjncker
1800.
2517 10th Feb* Anne and Sarah
and 29th Picker.
Deo. 1801.
2518 4th Jan. James Hath way ..
1803.
. Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant John Urquhart of His
Majesty's 71st Regiment, who departed this life on the 24th
day of August 1794, aged 39 years.
Urquhart, Vol. I, page 185.
, Mrs. Margarita Rock, who departed this life, November 17th
A.D. 1794, aged 63 years.
Mr. George Rock, Lieutenant in the Company's service, married at
Calcutta, Mrs. Phillis Case, widow, on November 23, 1769. John
Charles Rock married Ann Briscoe at Cuddalore, February 21,
1787.
. Here lieth below the body of Aratoon Carapiet, aged 61
years, departed this life on the 26th December 1794.
. Mrs. Lydia Torriano, wife of William Harcourt Torriano,
Esq., Resident at Nagore, died on the 17th October 1795,
aged 38.
A large pillared edifice inscribed at the top on each of its four sides
*' Sacred to the memory of Lydia Torriano." She was a Miss
Frazier, married August 1 7th, 1 772. She died at Nagore.
Charles William O'Neil, Esq., Surgeon, died November 3rd,
1797, aged 33 years, 10 months.
His two children Maria Elizabeth and Eliza Maria died infants at
Trichinopoly, April 29th, 1791, and March 23rd, 1794.
Charles Monckton O'Neil married Maria Taner at Chingleput July 21,
1788.
Aquy foy interada Macabona Piters de edade de 22 anno 2
mezes e 9 dias oqual naceo no 15 de maio do anno 1776 e
falleceo ao 9 de agosto anno 1798.
To the memory of Mary Harris, whose body lies here, and
whose soul, perfeot in all earthly ordained virtue, departed
on the 4th day of March 1799 at the early call of its guar-
dian Father for its next assigned function in His Eternal
Kingdom. Her husband, Charles Harris, with the tear of
love and gratitude, and with the awe of mortal admiration
and inferiority raises this stone, a silent, yet pleasing, re,
membrancer to her friends visiting these chambers of the
dead, of once enjoyed and inestimable worth.
Charles Harris was Collector in the Tan j ore Country. He died
January 12th, 1840. He married again Maria Theresa Frith
June 30, 1807.
Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant Robert Ashe of his
Majesty's 80th Regiment of Foot who died 27th March 1799.
Robert N. Brounoker, Esq., aged 44.
Formerly a Captain in the army. Dismissed the service 15th April
1789 (See Madras Courier for 29th January 1800).
Sacred to the memory of Anne and Sarah Ficker ; the former
departed this life on the 10th February 1801, aged 12 years
1 month and 10 days, and the latter on the 29th December
1801, aged 1 year, 11 months and 14 days.
Here lies interred the body of Captain James Hathway of the
Corps of Artillery, who died January 4th, 1803, aged 27 years.
Of the 1st Battalion of the Artillery.
On March 21, 1817 by the Rev. R. Baynes Garrison Chaplain,
Lechmere Hathway, Assistant Surgeon, H.C/S. Military service,
married Frederica Josina, youngest daughter of Albert Henry
Gfetler (Asiatic Journal, November IS 17).
287
TANJORE DISTRICT-eon<.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
(3)
Inscription.
2519
9th Feb.
1803.
2520 July 1803.
KARICOP CEMETERY, NEGAPATAM— cow*.
Adriana Db Rozario. Aqui esta posta a defunta Adriana, espoza de Domingo Db
Rozario, leitor de igreja reformada em Negapatao quern
despois deser 27 annos gazado foy a deoa servido aos 9 de
Fevereiro 1803 na idade de 40 annos, e 15 dias.
Gericke's will records : — " To Domingo de Rozario, reader and school-
master at Negapatam, who has managed the charitable institution
of that place ever since I left it in 1789, agreeably to my direc-
tions, and entirely to my satisfaction ; and that of the widows
and orphans who benefit by it, I bequeath fifty pagodas and the
bond 1 have from him for money lent to his brother, who was
unfortunate in hit business." (Taylor, page XXX, appendix.)
Huohbs (Francis Hughes Ward, son of Lt.-Col. Ward.)
Francis
Ward.
2521 31st Jan. Abraham Hughes
1804.
2522 22nd June D. C. Von Driberg
1804.
2523 15th May Ward
1806.
2524 Dec. 1807. Brown
2525 21st Feb. Edward Mackay
1810.
2526 12th April George Worthy
1811.
2527 21st Oct. H. J. M. Hughes
181L
2528 3rd May T. R. Stockdalb
1814.
2529 25th May L.M.Hepburn
1816.
2530 21st June AnnbSmalley
1816.
. Sacred to the memory of Lieut. A. Hughes who departed this
life January 31, 1804, aged 49 years.
Abraham Hughes invalided 1791.
. Colonel Diederich Carl Von Driberg.
He waB Commandant of the Dutch forces in Colombo in 1794
Colonel Elias Paravicini being Commandant of the Artillery.
Captain Chas. Driberg died on November 8, 1826 and on the same
day Gertruida E., his wife.
Sacred to the memory of Mrs. E. Ward, Relict of Lt. Col. Ward,
formerly of this establishment, who departed this life the
15th of May 1806, aged 55 years.
Madras Almanac gives June 1806 as the date of the death of Mrs.
Ward at Negapatam.
In October 1803 at Negapatam Captain Home of the brig. Tay
married Miss Louisa Ward, daughter of the late Colonel Ward of
the H. C. Service.
Francis Ward married Elizabeth Ware August 29, 1778 at Ambore.
(At Negapatam the infant daughter of Captain Brown.)
. Edward Mackay, Esq., Surgeon, aged 43 years. (Long in-
scription.)
His first wife Emilia Hannah died at Trichinopoly, April 6th, 1702,
aged 23; and his second wife Mary Louisa at Pondicherry'
January 25th, 1828 (see No. 16fi5). His daughter Mary Mackay
was married to Captain Richard Daly of H.M. 34th Regiment
at Pondicherry by the Rev. Mr. Holsberg (Asiatic Journal
August 1816.)
At Trichinopoly 28 September 1799 Mr. J. Stevens married Miss
Mackay.
Ensign George Worthy of the 2nd Battn. 25th N.I., aged
20 years.
To the sacred memory of Mrs. Harriett Jane Miller Hughes
who departed this life on the 21st October 1811, aged 40 years.
T. B. Stookdale, aged 28.
Here lies interred Louisa Magdalene, daughter of James Hep.
burn, Esq., Collector of Tanjour, aged 3 years obiit 25 Mav
1816, J
Asnra wife of Edward Smalley, Esq., and third daughter of
Gilbert Rickette, Esq., who was born April 27tb, 1798,
married February 2nd, 1816, and died June 21st, 1816.
238
TANJORE DISTRICT — cont.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
Inscription.
2531 28th Oct.
1817.
2532 6th Nov.
1819.
2533 5th April
1822.
(3) (4)
KARICOP CEMETERY, N EG APAT AM- cont.
Her date of marriage is given as 30th January 1816 in Asiatic Journal
July 1816, whereas it is stated as 2nd February 1816 in the
Madras Almanac.
Edw. Smalley, M.C. 8., married at Toleroo near Ingeram 6th August
1818, Catherine only daughter of John Giles Hudson, Esq., of
Muscliffe, Hampshire. Ho died April 4th, 1873, in London.
Q. G. Ricketts had been Registrar of the Supreme Court. He died
in 1817, leaving very heavy defalcations, to clear which a special
Bill was introduced into Parliament (see Nos. 485 and 647).
On 26th December 1815 J. Douglas White married Miss Ricketts.
William Grtffin- William Griffinhoofe, Captain in the Honourable Company**
hoofb. Service. Obit 28th October A.D. 1817, aged 33 years.
On February 29, 1830, at the island of Ascension Capt. Grifflnhoofa
R.N. of H.M.'s Primrose died.
R. H. Leembruogen.
Frances Higginson.
2534 18th Sept.
1823.
J. D. Crompton
2535 8th Aug. William Hardy
1824.
2536 23rd Jan. Henry Ftjllerton
1825.
2537 20th April Jambs Stewart
1832.
2538 5th Jan. Charles Robert
1833. Henry Keate.
2539 21st May C E. Leembruggen.
1833.
2540 26th April Dora Helena Hill . •
1846.
R. H. Leembruggen Esq., Civil Servant in the late Dutch
East India Company's Service at Surat, who departed this
life on the 6th November 1819, aged 60 years 2 months 8 days.
He married an Armenian lady, who died May 21st, 1833.
Frances Higginson departed this life on the 5th April 1822
in the 33rd year of her age, after a severe and protracted
illness, supported throughout with uncommon cheerfulnoss
and resignation. This monument is raised to the memory
of his beloved and lamented wife by Chas. Harwood Higginson.
He married Miss Frances Wostcott, April 17th, 1806. Their child
Amelia died at Nellore, October 13th, 1807, aged 3 months
and himself at Triohinopoly, 18 July 1824 (see No. 402).
Major James Dickenson Crompton, late Commandant of this
garrison, aged 38 years.
He married, November 15th, 1815, Fredericka Miihldorff, daughter
of Colonel Miihldorff of Tranquebar. His widow ro-marriod,
October 5th, 1835, Captain (afterwards General) Eyre Evans
Bruce.
Captain William Hardy, aged 39 years, late 19th Regt. N.I.
He married July 10th, 1821, Jane, daughter of the late J. Hunter,
Surgeon, R.N.
Captain Henry Fullerton of the Madras Engineers, who
died on the 23rd of January 1825.
He married, December 2nd, 1816, Emily, second daughter of John
Goldingham, F.R.S. Their daughter Frances married, August
8th, 1838, Edward Newbery, C.S.
(James Stewart M. D., aged 35.)
Charles Robert H. Keate, Esq., of the Madras Civil Service,
obiit 5th January 1833, aetat 21.
In the Madras Almanao of 1836 and in the district list of burials,,
the year ia 1855.
Mrs. C. E. Leembruggen, widow of the late R. H. Leembrug-
gen, Esq., formerly of the Dutch Civil Service at Surat.
After a painful and lingering illness, she departed this life
at Negapatam, May 21 , 1833, aged 56 years. In her dealing*
she was upright, in her religious principles liberal, and in
her charities munificent.
There is a cenotaph to her memory in the Armenian Churoh,
Madras (No. 760).
Dora Helena Hill, fourth daughter of Vice Admiral Henry-
Hill, died at Negapatam, 26th April 1846.
She die 1 at Negapatam at the house of her brother-in-law, Oapt*
F. Dudgeon, 44th NX
239
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
TANJORE DISTRICT— cord.
Name. Inscription.
(3) <*>
KARICOP CEMETERY, NEQ AP ATAM— con J.
2541 21st April John Cameron
1876.
2542 1877 . . G. F. Hellman
2543 2nd Oct. E. Vanhaltren
1892.
2544 17th Deo. James Frederick
1892. Wetherill.
John Cameron, M. C. S., who died at Kodavasal, aged 35
years.
Harunder hwilar S. J. 0. Kapten G. F. Hellman, fodd 1830,
dod 1877.
The only Danish inscription in this cemetery.
Mrs. Vanhaltren, aged 97 years, R.I.P.
James Frederick Wetherill, Madras Civil Service, born
January 10th, 1866.
2545
13th Jan.
1780.
Sophia Maitland
2546
23rd May
1789.
Sarah Burrowes
SWARTZ'S CHURCH, TANJORE.
In the little Fort, close to the Shivagunga Tank. Over the Fort gate is the date 1777 and on the facade of the church is the
inscription " Haec domus precum constructa est A.D. 1779." The small house adjoining the church is said to have been
Schwarz's habitation. The name given by him to this church was Christ Church. He also built St. Peter's Church. Major
Stevens built a temporary building for service in the large fort costing him 100 star pagodas. " On the 10th March 1779 the
General [Munro] laid the foundation stone 9 feet deep and the garrison being assembled I [SwartzJ preached a short sermon
from the 67th Psalm " : (Pearson's Life of Swartz, Vol. I, p. 341). The originating cause for the building of a Church at
Tanjore was because a European Regiment was stationed there and Government gave tho ground and materials for
building so much the more readily because of that circumstance " (Taylor, p. 64).
Here lies the body of Miss Sophta Maitland, who died on the
13th of January 1780, in the 17th year of her age.
Baptised May 26th, 1763, at Fort St. George, daughter of Lieuten-
ant Richard Thomas Rokas Maitland, who married Miss Jane De-
Morgan, February 3rd, 1761, and diod of wounds at the siege of
Madura 1764. Their other children were Catherine (b. 1762),
who married firstly John Taylor, her cousin (see No. 1633) on 2nd
February 1779, and secondly Benjamin Roebuck, C.S. (No.
2802); and Richard (b. 1764), who married a daughter of George
Westcott, C.S. (No. 306). Jane De Morgan (1742-1818) married
secondly in 1767 Dr. Duncan Buchanan.
In Calcutta April 20, 1765 Thomas Charlton married Elizabeth
Maitland, widow.
Mrs. Sarah Burrowes, the beloved wife of Thomas Burrowes,
Major of Cavalry ; she died the 23rd May 1789. Her life wan
distinguished by every virtue which flows from a native
purity of mind and a just sense of religion. Nor was she les§
admired for her taste and proficiency in the fine art*, than
respected and beloved for all those amiable qualities, which
truly enrich the female character and constitute the chief
ornament of the wife, the parent and the friend.
"This lady died on the 22nd May 1789 at Adriapatam where she
had gone some weeks before in pursuit of health, two days after
the birth of a daughter who lived only a few hours (Urquhart
Vol. I, p. 111.)
His first wife Mary Burrowes died at Madras, April 19th, 1778,
aged 22 years, and is buried in St. Mary's Cemetery (No. 138).
Burrowes resigned in 1790.
Near this place (whither her remains were brought from Madras)
lies the body of Margaret, only daughter of James and Anne
Calderwood Durham, of Largo, in the County of Fife, North
Britain, wife of James Strange, Esq., in the Honorable
East India Company's Civil Service ; she died the 15th day
of March 1791, aged 32, leaving issue one daughter. Impressed
by the most lively sense of those distinguished and most
amiable talents which endeared the wife, companion and
friend, he, with the trembling hand of true affection, inscribes
this marble to her memory.
44 Mrs. Strange is a very lively lady and that keeps up her spirits
under her severe complaint. Another would perhaps not be able
to stir from her oouoh '* — Schwartz's Life by Pearson, Vol. II,
p 231, Tanjore, July 28, 1790.
2547
15th Mar.
1791.
Margaret Strange.
TANJORE DISTRICT-^.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
SWARTZ'S CHURCH, TANJORE — cont.
At Trichinopoly. (S.P.G. Church Fort) is buried the infant son of
Mr. and the Honorable Mrs. Strange died January 26, 1811.
James Strange (1754-1840), at this time Paymaster at Tanjore,
was brother to 'Sir Thomas Andrew Strange, first Chief Justice of
Madras (1800-1817). He was a witness at the latter 's marriage
in October 1806 to Louisa, youngest daughter of Sir William
Burroughs, Judge of the Calcutta Supreme Court. Another
brother Colonel R. M. Strange died at Royakotta, November
20th, 1811. Their father, the well-known artist and engraver
Sir Robert Strange, fought at Culloden in 1745. The tale is told
how after the battle he fled to Edinburgh, where his fiancee
Isabella Lumisden concoalod him in her hoop, while the house was-
being searched for rebels. Her brother Andrew Lumisden was
private secretary to the Stuart princes. James Strange married
secondly in 1798 Anne, second daughter of the first Viscount
Melville and widow of Henry Drummond the banker. She died
January 1852. Thomas William Lumisden Strange, born Jan-
uary 4th, 1808, was the eldest son of the Chief Justice and a
Madras Civilian from 1825 to 1863. He died in England, Sep-
tember 3rd, 1884.
2543 13th Feb. Chbistian Frederic To the memory of the Rev. Christian Frederic Swartz„
1798. Swartz. born at Sonnenburg of Neumark, in the Kingdom of Prussia,.
the 26th October 1726, and died at Tanjore the 13th of Feb-
ruary 1798, in the 72nd year of his age. Devoted from hi&
early manhood to the office of missionary in the East, the
similarity of his situation to that of the first preachers of
the Gospel produced in him a peculiar resemblance to the
simple sanctity of the Apostolic character. His natural
vivacity won the affection, as his unspotted probity and
purity of life alike commanded the reverence of the Christian,.
Muhammadan and Hindu ; for sovereign princes, Hindu
and Muhammadan, selected this humble pastor as the medium
of political negotiation with the British Government, and
the very marble that here records his virtues was raised
by the liberal affection and esteem of the Rajah cf Tanjore,
Maharajah Serfojee.
The proper spelling of the name is Schwarz, not Swartz. The monu-
ment in this church is by Flaxman. The aged missionary ia
represented upon his death-bed and on his left stands Raja
Serfojee, his pupil, with two attendants, while on the right is the
missionary Kohlhoff. Schwarz was the son of a simple German
brewer and baker. He entered Halle University in 1740 and
became intimate with Hermann Francke and Schultze, who
inspired him with a desire to go to India. He landed at Cuddalore
in 1750 and joined the Tranquebar mission. In 1760 Schwarz.
went to Ceylon. On his return, he learned that a wife was being
Mat out for him, a Miss Anna Sophia Pap. On her arrival he
refused to marry her, not wishing to change his state. Anna Pap-
refused to return to Europe and was the guest of Maderup. She
was married to a Lieutenant.
In 1768 Schwarz was chaplain to the Company's troops at Trichi*
nopoly and remained there till 1778, when, leaving Trichinopoly
in charge of Pohle, he took up his residence at Tanjore by Raja
Tuljajee's request. About this time he was entrusted by Governor
Thomas Rumbold with a mission to Hyder, who received him
courteously and kept him three months at Seringapatam*
Sohwars's report was never published, but the details of his mission
may be found in Pearson's " Memoir " and in Wilks* " Historical
Sketches of the South of India. " Previous to the treaty of Mangalore
the Government sent him on another embassy tcTippoo, who, un.
like his father, refused to see him. In 1787 Raja Tuljajee adopted
a minor Serfojee and made Schwarz his tutor. Serfojee was the-
last representative but one of the Mahratta dynasty of Tanjore,.
founded by Shahjee, father of the great Seevajee, who obtained
241
TANJORE DISTRICT — cont.
8erial Date. . Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
SWARTZ'S CHURCH, TANJORE— cont.
Tan j or© as a. jaghire. It is of Serfojee that Lord Valentia
speaks witb suoh praiao in 1804 and Heber in 1826. Heber says
that he quoted Fourcroy, Lavoisier, Linnaeus and Buff on fluently,
that he had an accurate judgment of Shakespeare, that he wrote
tolerable English poetry, and "was respected by the English
officers in the neighbourhood as a really good judge of a horse and
a cool, bold and deadly shot at a tiger/* His statue by Flaxman
is in the Durbar Hall. He stands with his hands joined as if in
prayer and wears the curious three-cornered hat used by the
Tanjore princes. He was succeeded in 1832 by his son Seevajee 9
who died childless in 1853.
ST. PETER'S CHURCH, TANJORE.
So oalled after Rev. Laurits Peter Haubroe, missionary who died at Tanjore, 29th December 1830, aged 39 years and
9 months. When the Church was taken over and consecrated in 1874, it was called Peter Haubroe's Church and was dedi-
cated to the saint. It was rebuilt in 1900 on the site of earlier and smaller churches.
2549 8th Aug. Amelia Sophia Amelia Sophia Maidleod, daughter of Alexander and Sophia
1788. Macleod. Macleod who departed this life on the 8th day of August
1788, aged 13 months and 26 days.
Alexander Macleod was conjeeturably the sod of Alexander Macleod,
maternal uncle of Governor- General Sir John Maophorson, Bart.,
who in consultation dated December 10, 1785, described him as a
" gentleman in hi* confidence and family." He was admitted to
Westminster School, June 1768. He entered Madras Civil
Service as a Writer in 1777. In November 1785 he was appoint,
ed Private Seoretary to Governor-General. He afterwards
served in his old Presidency and became Senior Merchant and
one of the Collectors of the Jaghire Revenue in 1790, Collector
in Madura and Nellore districts and Peishcush of the Marawars
in 1792, Dindigul district 1795 ; Resident at Negapatam and
Revenue assistant under the Resident at Nagore 1800; At home
1801.
2550 21st June G. W. M. Kinsey . . George W. M., infant son of Capt. and Mrs. Kinsey.
1794.
General William Kinsey died in England, April 6th, 1837. His
son Lieutenant James Strange Kinsey married Miss C. H. £.
Welles, daughter of Captain Welles of the Dutch Service, October
7th, 1820.
John Buchan married Jane Kinsey April 28, 1794 at Vepery. James
Trinder married Miss Kinsey at Negapatam June 27, 1795.
2551 13th Feb. Christian Frederick Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Christian Frederick
1798. Swartz. Swartz, Missionary to the Honourable Sooiety for pro-
moting Christian Knowledge in London, who departed this
life on the 13th of February 1798, aged 71 years and 4 months.
Firm was thou, humble and wise,
Honest, pure, free from disguise ;
Father of orphans, the widows' support,
Comfort, in sorrow of every sort.
To the benighted, dispenser of light,
Doing, and pointing to, that which is right ;
Blessing to princes, to people, to me ;
May I, my father, be worthy of thee,
Wisheth and prayeth thy Sarabojee.
Swartz says he bought a house with 150 pagodas given him by Mr.
John Macpherson at the time of his returning to England and
by General Munro (1780 at Tanjore). (Pearson's life of Swartz,
page 370.)
2562 10th May D. J. Jabniokb . . To the memory of the Rev. Mr. Daniel Joseph Jabniokb,
1800. English missionary who departed this life, the 10th of May
1800, aged 41 years, 10 months and 17 days.
{See Taylor, p. 86).
vol. n— 31
242
Serial
number.
(i)
Date.
«2)
TANJORE DISTRICT-rCow*.
Name.
(3)
Inscription.
(4)
ST. PETER'S CHURCH, TANJORE-^cortf.
2553 27th Mar.
1844.
John Caspab
hoff.
2554 20th June
1848.
2555
9th Dec.
1877.
2556
2557
2558
2559
2560
2561
17th July
1779.
25th Aug.
1780.
8th Aug.
1783.
8th June
1784.
11th Max.
1786.
2nd May
1788.
Kohl- John Caspab Kohlhoff, Missionary of the Honorable S.P.C .K.,
who was born at Tranquebar, on the 23rd of May 1762, and
departed this life at Tanjore, on the 27th of March 1844.
He was the pupil of the Venerable Schwartz and his successor
an this mission in \*hich, by God's grace, he laboured 57
years
Son of J. B. Kohlhoff (1711-1790). He is represented inFlaxman's
monument as standing beside Schwarz's death-bed (No. 2300).
Cox ITbedkbick Cox Bishop, late a Captain in the 36th Native
Infantry, whose remains were committed to the deep sea
off St. Helena, on the 20th June 1848, at the age of 34.
Utrum plus amatus an amabilis esset quserendo operam
perdas.
• . J. F. Keakns, Missionary, who laboured in the S.P.G. Missions
in Tinnevelly and Tanjore for eight and twenty years.
He died December 9th, the second Sunday in Advent, in
1877, aged 52 years. This tablet and that in the cemetery
were erected by Her Highness S. C. Vijaya Mohana Muktam-
ba Raye Saheb, Princess of Tanjore.
ST. PETER'S CEMETERY, TANJORE.
Pbtbie Stanhope Petbie Stanhope Jones, an infant of 14 months, died in
Jones. Tanjore, July 17th 1779.
Captain Arthur Jones married Jane Bruce October 25, 1776 at
Ambore. Mr. Charles Edward Jones married Miss Anne Taylor
March 4, 1773.
Frederick
Btshop.
J. F. Kearns
Hannah Maria Tan-
ner.
Charles Salmon
John Galway
Donald Moody
John Jtjdson
Hannah Marta Tanner, who departed this life, August 25th,
1780, aged 28 years.
Lieutenant Edward Tanner (No. 2689) married Miss Hannah Maria
Arthur, October 3rd, 1770. He was probably son of No. 1133.
Lieut. Col. J. A. Tanner Coast artillery died July 4, 1807.
Lieutenant Charles Salmon, who departed this life on the
8th August 1783, aged 32 years. He was a worthy member
of society, a real friend, and an active steady officer. Memen-
to Mori.
Major Mathew Home married Miss Ann Salmon October 10, 1774.
John Galway, Major in the Nabob's service, who was born
30th of January 1743 and died 8th of June 1784, aged 41
years.
Donald Moody, Captain of His Majesty's 78th Regiment,
aged 28 years.
One Thomas Moody, Conductor of Ordnance and Head Assistant jn
the office of the Town Major of Fort St. George died on 28th
December 1817. (Asiatio Journal, July 1818).
John Judson, late Major of Artillery, who, after faithfully
serving the Honorable East India Company for 19 years,
departed this life, May 2nd, 1788, aged 43 years.
He joined the artillery in 1768, was Lieut. Aug. 25, 1773 and
Captain December 3, 1780,
His widow Catherine married Captain Robert Tutt (who retired
1796), on June 3rd, 1789. He was one of the officers in Braith-
waite's detachment, taken prisoner by Tippoo, February 18th,
1782, and brought with Col. Braithwaite from Seringapatam to
Bangalore, April 1784.
TANJORE DISTRICT — cont. '
Serial Date. Name. Inscription. ' ,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
ST. PETER'S CEMETERY, TANJORE—cow*.
2562 28th Mar. Robert Tblson Robert Telson Mahon, Cornet in the Honorable Company's
1790. Mahon. Cavalry, who departed this life, the 28th March 1790, aged
20 years'. The personal accomplishment which attracted
the notice and admiration of his numerous acquaintance
received a higher lustre from the virtues which adorned his
mind. Erected to his memory by his friend, Captain J.
Pugh.
Mahon was originally in the Artillery. Pugh died at St. Thomas
Mount, May^th, 1793 (No. 1383).
2563 27th April George Barclay . . [Lieut. George Barclay, Adjutant of the 16th Battalion of
1791. Native Infantry died at Tanjore on Wednesday evening the
27th April 1791'.]
Urquhart II, p. 42.
2564 10th May Alexander Brown . . [Lieut. Alexander Brown, of the Coast Military Establish-
1792. ment.]
Urquhart II, p. 146. No epitaph. He died at Tanjore. Formerly
on the Bengal establishment.
2565 8th June George Gordon . . [Lieut. George Gordon of His Majesty's 73rd Regiment, a
1792. gentleman who was endowed with many virtues and amiable
qualifications. He died at Tanjore on the 8th June 1792.]
Urquhart, Vol. Ill, p. 97.
2566 1st Dec. Charles Parsons Charles Parsons Ogo, Captain of Engineers on the Madras
1792. Ogg. Establishment, who departed this life at Tanjore, on the
1st of December 1792, aged 28 years and 23 days. Erected
by his wife Harriet Ogg.
He married Miss Harriet Browne, July 16th, 1791. She remarried
Bernard McMahon, April 26, 1797 at Vollore.
2567 10th Nov. Robert Trotter Robert Trotter, Esq., Surgeon in the Honorable East
1793. India Company's Service, aged 32 years.
Brother of Colonel Trotter (No. 2645) who diod at Palamcotta,
1819.
Another Gavin Trotter, Surgeon, died 22nd April 1807.
2568 24th Sept. James Dods . . . . Lieutenant James Dods, who died on the 24th of September
1795. 1795, aged 35 years. In fine videbitur.
Urquhart (Vol. II, p. 127) prints a lengthy poem to the memory of
Lieutenant Dods of the 31st Battalion Coast Native Infantry
and of Major Dunwoody, who died to the 44 northward after a
severe indisposition," in the month of July 1795. The writer
appears to have composed his elegy at Qingee to whose 44 horrid
hills " he more than once refers and concludes with the sentiment
44 Dunwoody, Dods, and I, shall meet again.**
Munro writes as follows to his brother James from Sankridroog,
25th January 1796 : — 44 My attachment to India has been much
weakened since you left it by the loss of many valuable friends.
You already know of James Irving; but Dods, the oldest and
dearest of them all is now gone : he was my tent mate at
Conjeeveram in 1780 and from that time till the day of his death
my affection for him grew stronger and stronger : he was carried
off in the course of a week by a hill fever which he had caught
at Gingee, ... no year ever passed that he did not contrive
to spend several * eeks with me. He was going to see some
friends at Trichinopoly, and from thence had promised to come
through the Baramahl on his way to Araie. I wrote to him
that I had a tent ready for him ; but my letter came back under
a cover, informing me of his death ". (Gleig, Vol. I page 181).
Dods, friend and oo-adjutor of Swartz " with much piety and
great talents had applied himself to the study of the Gentoo
and Tamulian languages into the former of whioh he had begun
to translate some parts of the new Testament." (Pearson's life
of Swartz, Vol. II, p. 337. )
VOL. n — 3lA
24*
TANJORE DISTRICT— cont>
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
ST. PETER'S CEMETERY, TANJORE — cont.
2569 3rd May William Chablbs Major William Charles Gorry, late Captain of Grenadiers,
1796. Gorry. His Majesty's 71st Regiment of foot, aged 39 years.
His death is truly regretted by his brother officers, was occasioned
by a fall from a window into a dry tank immediately beneath "
(Madras Gazette for May 14, 1796 ; No. 72). The 71st Regiment
was then commanded by David Baird.
2570 28th June William Gahan . . William Gahan, Lieutenant, H.M. 12th Regiment of Foot,
1798. aged 24 years.
2571 19th June Hans Gordon . . Hans Gordon, Esq., Garrison Surgeon of Trichinopoly, who
1820. departed this life at Tanjore, June 19th, 1820.
2572 22nd June William Wetherall. Lieutenant William Wetherall of H.M. Royal Scots, who
1821. departed this life on the 22nd day of June, A.D. 1821, aged
35 years.
He married, September 2 1st, 1819, Amelia Laura, daughter of Charles
Thomas Grant, Paymaster of the Royal Scots and niece of the
seventh Viscount Falkland. On the same day her twin sister
Amelia Laura married Captain F. L. Doveton, 3rd M.L.C.
2673 10th Feb. George Frederick G.F. Cherry, Esq., of the M.C.S., late Zillah Judge at Kumba-
1827. Cherry. konam, who, on the 10th of February 1827, and in the 39th
year of his age, after a short illness, resigned a life eminently
distinguished for rectitude of principle and zeal to his em-
ployers. As a public character, and as a private one, for
every amiable qualification that could adorn it, his heart was
open to every charitable feeling and generous sympathy.
The peculiarly melancholy loss of this inestimable life to his
family is, and ever must continue, a source of the deepest
affliction. For in him do they mourn the affectionate husband,
excellent parent and faithful friend. In every respect, O !
how truly worthy was he of imitation. This tribute of
affection and respect to his dear memory is offered by his
devoted and disconsolate wife, C. S. Cherry.
Mr. Cherry's first wife Eugenie died at Ramnad, October 9th, 1813.
On June 10th, 1817, he married at Madura Charlotte Sophia,
second daughter of the late Captain A. Hughes, who survived him
and married secondly Richard Prichard Pohle. Mr. Cherry's
parents were John Hector Cherry, Member of Council, Bombay,
and Catherine, the eldest daughter of William Stratton of Surat.
The Strattons are connected by marriage with the family of John
Locke, the philosopher. John Locke was the son of Peter Locke.
John Locke's son, i.e., Peter's grandson who was the celebrated
philosopher, died unmarried. Peter Locke had also two daughters:
Anne, who married Jeremy King, and whose son Peter King
became Lord High Chancellor in 1725 ; and Elizabeth, who
married William Stratton of Shrivenham and whose son Peter
Stratton became devisee with Lord Chancellor King of the estates
left by John Locke. Peter's son John Stratton went to Madras
in 1721, and in 1741 was chief at Vizagapatam and in 1742 member
« of Council at Madras. He married Mrs. Mary Houghton nee
Bright, Sept. 19, 1729. He had three children, George, William
and Sarah, who married George Mackay, February 23, 1756.
George married Miss Hester Eleanora Light, January 19, 1768.
He was appointed writer in 1751. In 1764 he was in Council
and Chief of Vizagapatam in 1773. In 1775 he was second of
Council at Madras. In 1776 he with other members arrested Lord
Pigot, the Governor and usurped the Government which led to
his recall and trial in 1779. His brother William Stratton was in
1763 member of Council at Surat. He married Jeanne Bouchard,
the sole child and heiress of Jean Baptiste Bouchard, a cadet of
the noble house of Montmorenci, who had joined the French
Company's service at Pondicherry. Bouchard's wife was Jeanne
245
TANJORE DISTRICT — cont.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
Inscription.
2574 7th Oct.
1828.
2575 16th June
1831.
2576 31st July
1839.
2577 25th Jan.
1844.
(3) (4)
ST. PETER'S CEMETERY, TANJORE— co/rt.
Varenne, widow of M. Martin, also in the Pondicherry Civil
Service. By her first husband Madame Martin had two sons, one
of whom served in the French Navy under Count D'Estaing ;
while the other was a civilian. M. Bouchard, Mr. G. F. Cherry's
maternal grandfather, settled at Surat and died there in Novem.
ber 1766, aged 70. His widow died also at Surat in May 1788,
aged 75 (see Nos. 601, 1053 and 2321).
George Cherry died at Nottingham Place Marylebone. His eldest
son Geo : RedH. [?] (1761-1799), 2nd son, Peter Cherry who had
3 daughters —
(1) Susan, married James Minchin, October 18, 1821.
(2) Rosa, 2nd daughter married John Carnac Morris, C.S.
February 4, 1823.
(3) Georgiana married Morgan Charles Chase (4 sons and 2
daughters).
Jambs Wyse.. .. Jambs Wyse, Esq., Superintending Surgeon on the Madras
Establishment, who departed this life at Tanjore, on the
7th October, A.D. 1828, after a service of 27 years, aged
52 years and 11 months.
He was married to Miss Jobson at St. Thomas Mount by the Reverend
Dr. Ball (Asiatic Journal, June 1816). In Palladam, near Hospital
compound, Coimbatore district, Mary Eliza. Graeme, infant
daughter of James Wyse, died aged 20 months and 1 7 days on 1st
Dec. 1820. Another daughter born to him at Cannanore on
January 6, 1817, died on January 18, 1817 (Asiatic Journal, July
1817).
His daughter presumably by his first wife, Isabella married February
10th, 1820, Mr. James Hazlewood, Surgeon, who died Oct.
12th, 1834 at Masulipatam.
Edward Jambs . . This tomb is erected by the officers of the 32nd Regiment, N.I.,
to the memory of Lieutenant Elward Jambs, who departed
this life on the 10th of June 1831, aged 32 years.
Younger son of the late T. J ames of Truro, Cornwall.
On Feb. 16, 1838 Captain T. Polwhele of the H.E.I.C. service
was married to Edith Edgecombe Hosken, daughter of the late
James, Esq., of Truro.
Hekry Willins . . Lieutenant Henry Willins, of the 30th N.I., aged 29 years.
Martha Sayer
2578 21st May
1849.
John Elias
hoff.
Kohl-
Martha, relict of the late Mr. Stalker Sayer (formerly resident
at Palghautcherry), who departed this life on the 25th daj
of January A.D. 1844, aged 69 years. This monument has
been erected by her surviving daughters, Mesdames Poulsoi*
and Madden as a memento of their affection.
Colonel Welsh writes of her as follows : 44 Mrs. Sayer the industrious
widow of a Conductor, who had long been stationed at Paulghaut,
and who was a capital upholsterer, had been for some years
employed by us to make up articles of furniture ; which she sends
to all parts of India ; and sometimes I blush to own, gets nothing
but empty promises of payment in return. Her furniture,
generally made of cedar, is strong, handsome and reasonable. She
has a command of wood of every description in the neighbouring
jungles and the improved Tellicherry chair I have sketched was
made by her. Such people are as rare as they are useful in the
East.*' Three of her daughters were married to officers : Eliza
Ann to Captain John Poulson, April 25th, 1822 ; M.F. to Lieu-
tenant Barnett, 7th N.I., June 19th, 1823; Caroline to Ensign
John Mills Madden, December 22nd, 1831.
S. Sayer died at Paulghautcherry on March 11, 18 IT aged 42 years
(Asiatic Journal, Dec. 1817).
Sacred to the memory of John Elias Kohlhoff, Eso.,
who departed this life on Monday, 21st of May 1849, aged 48
years 10 months and 26 days. This stone was erected by His
Highness Sivajee Maharaja, Rajah of Ta.njore»,-in token of
the regard and esteem be had for him.
246
TANJORE DISTRICT-«xm*.
Serial
tiumbor.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
Inscription.
(3) (4)
ST. PETER'S CEMETERY, TANJORE -con*.
2579 11th Jan. Samuel Hutchinson.
1857.
2580 27th Nov. John H. Moore
1858.
2581 22nd Dec. Bernard Edward
1875. Delaval, Baron
Hastings.
25*2 30th May Archbald Moncreiff
1879. Simpson.
2583 17th May Edward Alfred
1880. Boyd.
2584 3rd Nov. Francis Henry
1884. Hebbert.
Samuel Hutchinson, Esq., a European traveller, born at>
Timoney, County Tipperary, died at Tanjore, aged 27 years.
Lieutenant John H. Moore, of the Madras Engineers, who was
drowned in a breach in the Vennar, in the discharge of his
duty, on the 27th November 1858 ; born 6th July 1835, aged
23 years.
To the memory of Bernard Edward Delaval, tenth
Baron Hastings, born September 9th, 1855, died December
22nd, 1875. This monument is erected in most affectionate
remembrance by his brother.
He died of fevor contracted while tiger shooting with the Prince of
Wales. He was succeeded by his brother the Honourable G. M.
Aatley.
Archbald Moncreiff Simpson, for many years resident at
Nellore, who departed this life at Tanjore, 30th May 1879,
aged 62. R.I.P.
Father of Simpson, Auditor, S.I. Railway at Trichinopoly.
Edwart* Alfred Boyd, Missionary, S.P.G. Landed in India
January 17th, died in Tanjore, May 17th, 1880. This stone
is erected as a tribute of respect and affection by some of his
fellow students of St. Augustine's College at Canterbury.
Trancis Henry Hebbert, C.S., who died 3rd November
1884, aged 32 years. This stone is placed over his grave in
token of their esteem, by his comrades in the Tanjore district
and by other friends.
VALLAM CEMETERY.
Vallam is seven miles from Tanjore and the headquarters of the Collector. The fort was taken by the English
m 1771 for the Nawab of the Carnatio. " There is a little fort near Tanjore Wallam which was battered yesterday.
We heard the report pf the guns vory plainly " (Swartz's letter to Chambers in Pearson's life of Swartz, Volume I,
page 273). The garrison abandoned the fort on 20th October. The English army was commanded by General Smith.
The fort remained in their occupation until its restoration to Rajah Tulsajeo together with the whole Tanjore Country
in 1776.
2585 12th Sept. Hugh Mackay To the memory of Hugh Mack ay, Lieutenant in the Honorable
1773. Company's Service, who departed this life Sept. ye 12th,
1773, aged 25 years.
Infinite joy and endless woe attend on every breath,
And yet how unconcerned we go upon the brink of death !
Military Cons. Vol. No. 46 (1773) pp. 861-2, gives the date of
his death as 2nd Sept. 1773.
2586 10th Oct. George Poultney To the memory of George Poultney Collins, Esq., Captain
1773. Collins. in the Honorable Company's Service, who departed this
life ye 10th of October 1773, aged 32 years.
Thy call I follow to the land unknown,
I trust in thee and know in whom I trust,
Or life or death is equal, neither weighs ;
All weight is this, Lord, let me live to thee ;
So vain world, adieu !
Military Cons. Vol. No. 46 (1773), p. 975, gives the date of hia
death as 15th Oct. 1773.
2587 . . Janet Paterson . . To the memory of Janet Paterson, spouse cf Alexander Peter-
son.
Paterson was a Captain in the let Battalion, 2nd European Regiment
(see No. 159). Alexander William Paterson : Ensign 19th May
1790 ; Lieutenant Nov. 1, 1792. He died Nov. 23, 1797.
5588 • . C. Handle » . Here lies the body of C. Handle, officer in the Company's
Service, aged 35 years.
247
TINNEVELLY DISTRICT.
Serial Date. Name. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
ISOLATED TOMB AT TUT1CORIN.
2689 2nd Dec. Susanna de Cruz , ^^rftrib^i^O lonfr&^L^ 2sl- &SL'rrfifi&@($& @0$&<@ ll&g<t
1618. @)8sr7 &fii&&<Q<5ft,uS\®CL-&® u!?((T)&(&,&l. uS)6in<£ Gun@i£$
61/ ld §5>l&G&rTGn<Sfi6ijih.
t€ In this grave is interred, Susanna, daughter of Juan de
Cruz, Syndic, on the 2nd day of December 1618. Those
who n ad this, please recite one Kyrie Eleison, and Ave
Maria in the name of God."
This is the oldest mortuary inscription in Tamil characters over a
European or Eurasian. It is locally known as the Syndics'
tomb, and forms the only memorial of the Portuguese occupation
A of Tuticorin. The town was a Portuguese settlement from about
1640 till 1658, when captured by the Dutch. The Protestant
Church still bears the V.O.C. crest of the Netherlands Company
and the date MDCCL.
DUTCH CEMETERY AT TITICOJRIM
Ringeltaube writes June 19, 1806, that he attended the Dutch Church at Tuticorin, a spacious octagon building 44 where
my Country man Rev. Mr. Cleaver read a good sermon in Dutch to a few attentive hearers" "a
singular but truly pious character at that place the Rev. Mr. Cleaver Dutch Minister. 1 '
Hieronder leyt begraven den E. Heer Olivier Witmont in syre
leeven oppercoopman erj opperhoofi der cutte Maduie oud bO
jaren 4 maanden e 8 dagen gebooren 1686 den 30 July en
den Heere onstlapen den 8 December Ao 1736.
2590
8th Deo.
1736.
Olivier Witmont
2591 29th June Johann Busch
1740.
Hieronder leyt begraven Johann Busch oppercoopman en
hooft den Madurese custe gebooren te Amsterdam den 24
December Ao 1700 en overleden en Tuticoryn den 29 Juny
Ao 1740 oud 39 jaren 6 maanden e 5 dagen.
2592 1st Jan.
1809.
J. W. T. Cluver
Hie jacent cineres Josimi Gulielmi Theolori Cluveri ecclesise
Tuticorensis pastoris fidelissimi. Natus XXII Augusti
A.D. MDCCLXIX. Haustenbock in comitatu Lippa?o sancte
beate obiit primo Januarii A.D. MDCCCIX.
These three tombs are buried under a mass of rubbish, which has
been shot over the cemetery wall. They are most difficult to
read.
2593 7th Dec. Joseph BAaaOT . - Here lieth buried the earthly remains of Joseph Baggot, late
lgQ9 # Master Attendant of this place. He was born at Kirby in
Warwickshire A.D. MDCCLXIX and departed this Lfe the
VII December A.D. MDCCCIX
In 1800 he was Beachmaster at Negapatam. When at Tuticorin
he was the hero of a singular incident. The Polygar prisoners,
interned at Palamcottah after the suppression of the Tinnevelly
disturbances by Major Bannerman in 1799, made their escape on
February 2nd, 1801, and occupied Tuticorin. Among their
captives were Lieutenant Ormsby and Mr. Baggot, both of whom
were released unmolested. Mrs. Baggot petitioned for her hus-
band's liberty, and the 41 Cat,** as the chief was called at once set
him free. u This was the infamous Catabomia Naig, who had
lately been confined in irons and treated with every indignity;
upon whose head a price was set and who was on no condition to
receive quarter if found in arms.** " Baggott, Jos. Captain of a
Country Ship, 1786, resides at Tuticoron At Pondicherry
Lieut. Robert Ormsby 6th N.C., was married, to Madame
Welsh de Chermont Oct. 1, 1800 (Courier 5 Nov. 1800).
At Tuticorin, Sept. 30, 1848, Joseph Baggott, Esq., Master
Attendant, died, aged 49 years.
248
TINNEVELLY DISTRICT-co/tf.
Serial
number.
(I)
Date.
(2)
Name.
Inscription.
(3) (4)
DUTCH CEMETERY AT TUTICORIN-co/tf.
2594
259j
13 th Aug. T^rancina Lydia Hier onder rust het stof van Mejuffrouw Francina Lyi>ja
1810. Vanspall. Giffenio, hiiisvrouwe van den welelenden Heer F. G. Vans-
pall geboren den 6 January 1772 ; heeft dit tydelyke ver
wisseld met het eeuwige op den 13 August 1810 in den
ouderdom van 38 jaaren 7 maanden en 7 dagen.
Verwisseld = She has exchanged the temporal for the eternal.
21st Jan. Hbnrious Vonsohs- Ter gedagtenisse van den weleleden Heer Hbnrious Volraai>
1824. ten. Vonsohsten, in zyn Eds. leven Resident der Nederlandsche
bezittingen ter kuste Madura, Overleeden te Tutukoryn den
21 January 1824 in't 70 jaar van zyn Eds. ouderdom.
Hoe teer gywer be mind, hoe dier geschat voorheen
Hoe hoog uw eer witwo dengd is opgorteegen
Hiets blyt uovy [?] dan eer hoogye stofs alien
Dits ailes wat gy zegt en alien zuller wezen.
Inscription on the upper squaro of a lofty obelisk. His son Henry
Francois married at Pondicherry Mile. Anna Pochont, June-
20th, 1817, and lies buried at Pursewalkum Cemetery, Madras,.
October 20th, 1844, aged 52. He is described on his tombstone as
** late Governor of the Dutch Settlements on the Coromandel
Coast."
2596
12th Mar. Jan J aoob Meyer
1824 [sic].
2597 4th May Alexander
1855. ton.
Den Vrykoopman Jan Jacob Meyer dekt deez steen,
Wient weldoen zyner mode menschen was gemeen
En al schoon't balsturig lot mans leven hadt geschort
Zyn zugt tot weldagtheid bleef altoos onverkort.
Geboren ten Manaar op den 27 Zeptember 1762
Gestorven te Tutukoryn op den 12 Maart 1822.
balsturig s=» Uncontrollable.
" This stone covers the free merchant J. J. Meyer, who habitually
did well to his neighbour. And although uncertain fate has
shortened the man's life, his desire to do good remained always
unshortened."
Fuler- Alexander, the only son of Hugh Fulerton, Sheriff substitute
of Kincardineshire, aged 26 years.
2598
23rd Nov.
1858.
Dawson Mayne
. Dawson Mayne Esq., Madras Civil Service, aged 41 years.
This tablet was erected by an attached wife, in memory of
her beloved husband.
There is also a tablet in Palamcottah Church. He died of cholera.
He was the son of Captain John Mayne of the 9th Dragoons who
married Mrs. Whyte on 27th January 1817 (Asiatic Journal, July
1817.) He married his cousin Sarah, daughter of John Mayne, of
Freame Mount, co. Monaghan, Ireland. Her brother, John Dawson
Mayne, was an authority on Indian Criminal Law. He married
at Madras on August 11th, 1859, Helen only daughter of Lieut.
Col. Riohard Hamilton, 1st N.I
Captain J. C. Mayne, 2nd Madras Light Cavalry, died at Jaulnah,
Sept. 12, 1859.
BURIAL GROUND AT PALAMCOTTAH CHURCHYARD.
Palamcottah an old square built fort of considerable dimensions inhabited only by soldiers and merchants. It contains two
churches both very small, the one Protestant and the other Roman Catholic *' (Ringeltaube's Life : Feb. 12, 1806-7). Schwartz
Tinted this place twice in 1785. On the first occasion he solemnly dedicated Clorinda's Chapel, called after a Mahratta
Brahmin woman who had married a Company's military officer. See Penny's Church in Madras, page 631.
Peter Dislby . . Here lies the body of Peter Disley, Conductor, born the
2599 23rd April
1784.
13th of August 1738 and deceased the XXIII of April 1784
Friday in the morning, aged 45 years 7 months 10 days at
Palamcottah.
He married Jane Salter, May 4th, 1760.
U9
TINNEVELLY DISTRICT — cont.
S«rial Date. Name. Infoription.
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
BURIAL GROUND AT PALAMCOTTAH CHURCHYARD— cont.
2600 1 1th July William Light . . Sacred to the memory of William Light, Esq. , a man who with
1784. the fewest failings possest the noblest virtues of the mind.
As a citizen he was respected ; as a friend esteemed ; as a
husband beloved, but respect esteem and affection were too
soon followed by their attendant regret. Reader! If
human felicity be the search it may be found in his life. But
his death will better instruct thee in its fickleness and brevity.
Tho* placed remote from all he loved or knew,
This pillar catches but the stranger's view,
Tho' to the Indians' gaze it rears its head
Obscure its purpose, and its language dead,
On Asia's sands like Europe's lettered plains,
The muse shall hallow virtue's frail remains,
And on this altar to remembrance dear
Preserve that relic rich the widow's tear.
Obiit 11 July 1784. ^Etat 35.
Writer in 1765 ; Senior Merchant in 1776. Brother of Miss Hester
Eleanora Light who came out to India with Eliza Draper in
1767 and married January 19th, 1768, George Stratton, after-
wards acting Governor of Madras during the eight stormy days
that succeeded the deposition of Lord Pigot (see No. 340).
C. Hunter, Esq., Bengal Surgeon (who died at Caloutta , 6th May
1831, as member of the Medical Board), married Miss A. Light*
October 1809.
2601 27th Jan. Jambs Leslie . . James Leslie, Esq., formerly Surgeon to the garrison, who lived
1785. esteemed and died regretted.
2602 23rd May William George Raised by friendship and hallowed by affection, this pillar.
1785. Wasey. the monument of William George Wasey, records the
vanity of human wishes. While youth regards it with a
sigh, the fair, the virtuous and the happy shall ponder on
their lot, and ere the blessing flies improve the day of friend-
ship and the hour of love with mental usury. So shall the
grateful tongue of female truth deplore their loss and on the
tomb obscure their memory live in friendship's strain
Obiit 23rd May 1785, aged 24.
Writer in 1778. He marriod January 18th, 1785, Hannah, nee
Butterworth, the widow of James Johnson to whom she wa*
married February 5th, 1775. Wasey 's widow married Nathaniel
E. Kindersley, July 3rd, 1786, at Jagernaikporam. (See No. 468.)
2603 17th Aug. John W. Everett . . Captain John W. Everett, aged 47 years.
1791.
His wife Martina Leonora Eve died at Trichinopoly, August 28th
1782, aged 29 years. Two of her ohildren are also buried there.
There was a George Everett ; Ensign, 22 May 1783, deceased
12 October 179*1.
26*04 24th Feb. James Buchanan . . James Buchanan Esquire, aged 39 years.
1793.
"Buchanan, Agent to the Nabob at Tutaoorin, 1787, resides at
Tutaoorin " E.I. Kalendar, 1791.
2605 29th Mar. Edward Cottrell . . Lieutenant E. Cottrell, aged 30 years.
1793.
2606 31st Mar. Benjamin Sealb . . Lieutenant B* . Seale, aged 35 years.
1793.
He joined the army in 1780 as Cadet, was Ensign 19th December
1780, and Lieutenant April 17, 1786.
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TINNEVELLY DISTRICT— cont.
number.
(1)
Date.
(2)
Name.
Inscription*
(3) (4)
BURIAL GROUND AT PALAMCOTTAH CHURCHYARD — cont.
2607
2608
2609
21st May
1793.
26th July
1793.
19th Feb.
1794.
Arthur Mair
Thomas Haffey
John Roberts
2610 7th Mar. Francis Blake
1794.
2611 24th Dec. William Ross
1794.
2612 30th April Philip Cole ..
1802.
2613 3rd June David Bethhillel • .
1845.
2614 9th Feb. John Archibald
1875. Boyle.
2615 2nd Sept. Henry Bower
1885.
2616 11th Oct. Edward Sargent
1889.
Arthur Mair, Esq., aged 38 years.
One Ensign Patrick Mair died July 1789.
Probably his broth©
Cornet Thomas Haffey, of the 3rd Regiment of Native
Cavalry, aged 18 years.
Ensign in both Infantry and Cavalry, 27th May 1791. Probably
brother of John Burges Haffey, who joined the Cavalry in 1789
and was Lieutenant, August 1796.
Lieutenant John Roberts, aged 29 years.
Ensign, 3rd January 1783 ; Lieutenant 21 August 1790.
Mr. F. Blake, late Assistant Surgeon to the 21st Batt. aged 29
years.
William son of Abraham and Mary Ross, aged 1 year & 3
months.
Abraham Ross : aet. 15, height 5' 6*, England, Kent, labourer ;
arrived at Madras in the Sartire frigate June 1780 ; appointed
conductor 13th August 1800; at Ryacotta, April 1808; at
Bellary 1813 ; invalided 16th February 1816.
He married Mary Ami Henderson, August 19th, 1786.
(Lieutenant Philip Cole 6th Regiment N.I., in the district of
Palamcottah on 30th April 1802.)
To the memory of Rabbi David BethhiIvLEL, a Hanoverian
Jew, who died suddenly on the 3rd June 1845, aged 56 years.
This memorial was erected by his godson Raphael Moses.
John Archibald Boyle, M.C.S., aged 30 years.
An able writer, and one of the contributors to the " Calcutta Review.**
In loving memory of Henry Bower, d.d., Missionary S.P.G.,
aged 73 years, an eminent Dra vidian scholar, principal reviser
of the Tamil version of the Bible. Author of many valuable
Tamil works. A laborious missionary helpful in every good
work. A man of peace, universally esteemed ; was born
at Madras on the 18th December 1812 ; rested from his
labours at Palamcottah on the 2nd September 1885. His
works do follow him.
Bower was present as a boy at Sir Thomas Munro's death at
Pattikondah, July 6th, 1827 (see No. 1056).
To the honoured memory of Edward Sargent d.d.; who for
54 years as lay agent, missionary and coadjutor Bishop, lived
and laboured in Tinnevelly in connection with the C.M.S. for
the glory of God and the welfare of the Tamil people. Born
at Paris 1815, died at Palamcottah Uth October 1889, aged
74 years. This memorial is erected by his many friends in
England and India.
CANTONMENT BURIAL GROUND AT PALAMCOTTAH.
2617
2618
5th Aug.
1790.
11th Dec
1791.
Maria Bridges
Maria, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas and
Hill Bridges, aged 2 years and 9 months.
See No. 146.
Polly
Thomas Liighton .. Thomas, son of Captain Thomas and Maria Louisa Leighton.
Thomas Leighton, who died a Colonel, May 22nd, 1808, was
Lieut. Colonel of the Madras European Regiment in 1800
Of. No. 1756.
At Palamcottah on 4th Ootober 1790, Captain Thos. Leighton
Comms. 19th Battalion, N.I., was married to Miss Everet,
daughter of Captain Everet in H.E. the Nabob's service.
251
TINNEVELLY DISTRICT— exwtf.
Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
Name.
Inscription.
(2) (3) (4)
CANTONMENT BURIAL GROUND AT PALAMCOTTAH — cont.
2619
2620
10th Nov.
1792.
22nd June
1794.
Ann Preston
James and
Landon.
Martha
2621
17th Sept.
1794.
DlJGALD MACMlLLAN.
2622 29th Jan. T. P. Johnston
1795.
2623 9th Aug. John Ravenhill . .
1799.
2624 26th June Mosely Maxwell . .
1800.
-2625 2nd Juno Martha Stephens .
1801.
2626 22nd Jan. James Bexwith
1802. Greaves.
2627 1st Aug. John Randall
1802.
2628 1st Sept. Henry Day . .
1802.
2629 Feb. 1803. James Smith
2630 23rd Oct. Percy George Hill.
1806.
Ann, daughter of Lieutenant and Mary Preston, aged 5 days.
William Preston, ensign 1st May 1783, Lieutenant, 21 August 1790*
16th N.I., Commanding a Revenue Battalion, died at Triohy.,
on 21 March 1802 (No. 2703).
Hero he the bodies of James Landon, Esq. and of Margaret
Martha his wife, who with their new born infant here alaa
interred departed this life in June MDCCXCIV. To this
amiable couple, whose early loss deprived this world of a
bright example of conjugal felicity, Friendship has erected
this monument in testimony of sincere regret.
Writer in 1777. Collector of the Centre division of Arcot in 1792.
He married Miss Margaret Maria Dent, December 24th, 1788.
Richard Moore married Charlotte Landon, March 9, 1796, at Vizaga*
pa tarn.
Lieutenant Dugald MaoMillan, of His Majesty's 19th Regiment
of Light Dragoons, aged 22 years.
This small monument covers the remains of Thomas Pelling
Johnston, aged 6 months, the first born of James and
Sarah Johnston.
James Johnston was Assistant Surgeon, 22 June 1788, and Sur-
geon to the 1st Nativo Cavalry in 1800. He married Sarah
Polling, July 23rd, 1792 (see No. 032), and died December 10th,
1804.
(Lieutenant John Ravenhill at Palamcottah.)
Mosely Maxwell Esquire, aged 21 years.
He died in the house of Messrs. Child and Conway at Palamcottah.
Mrs. Martha Stephens, wife of John Stephens.
John Stephens buried at Madras, February 13th, 1808, aged 37
years, was a retail merchant at Trichinopoly and married Mis*
Martha Croker, October 15th, 1792. He remarried Miss Catherine
Sarquis Satur, Sep. 6, 1800.
Lieutenant J. B. Greaves of the 1st Battalion, 3rd Regiment
N.I., aged 20 years.
He commanded Comery, 20 miles from Ramnad, which was besieged
during the first Poligar war.
Lieutenant J. Randall of the 1st Battalion, 3rd Regiment
N.I., aged 20 years.
Lieutenant Henry Day of the 1st Battalion, 3rd Regiment K.I.,
aged 25 years. This monument is erected by his brother
officers to commemorate the gallant soldier and faithful
friend.
(At Tapanooly Feb. 1803 Capt. James Smith an old Commander
in the Country's service, a man who commanded loye and
respect from all who knew him.)
Percy George Hill, Lieutenant and Adjutant of the 1st
Battalion, 3rd Regiment M.I. , aged 23 years. This monument
is erected to his memory by his brother officers as a mark of
their esteem and regard for their departed friend.
In the Madras Almanac of 1807, he is mentioned as Lt. Herves*
George Hill and as having died on the 22nd Oct.
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Serial
number.
Date.
Name.
Inscription.
(2) (3) (4)
CANTONMENT BURIAL GROUND AT PALAMCOTTAH — cont.
2631
26th Oct.
1806.
Clementina Welsh. Clementina Welsh, born at Calcutta, aged 4 years.
Madras Almanac of 1807 states 18th October as the date of death.
The daughter of Major James Welsh, 3rd M.N.I., author of M Military
Reminiscences," a very interesting book published in London in
1830. He married in 1794 the daughter of Francis Light,
Governor of Prince of Wales' Island. One of Welsh's daughters
married in 1824 Captain CMaxtone; and another Matilda, Lieu-
tenant A. M. Elder in 1827. Captain Elphinstone married Miss
Eleanore Margaret Welsh at Bangalore, December 28th, 1810
(see No. 2821).
On 19th April 1838 at Vizagapatam by the Rev. V. Shortland,
Lieut. Josiah Wilkinson, 44th Regiment, N.I., was married to
Emma, third daughter of the late Lieut. -Col. Elphinstone and
granddaughter of Major-General Welsh, commanding the Northern
Division. On 23rd May 1838, at St. Thomas' Mount, by the
Rev. W. Jones, B. Heyne Esq., 16th Regiment, N.I. , was married
to Elizabeth fourth daughter of the late Lieut. -Col. Elphinstone
and granddaughter to Major-Goneral J. Welsh, Commanding
Northern Division.
U632 24th April James Stock
1809.
2633 25th Sept. Hbnby Wise
1809.
2634
2nd Nov.
1809.
2636
5th Feb.
1812.
. . (At Palamcottah James Stock, Esq., Assistant Surgeon, 1st
Battalion, 4th Regiment, N.I.)
Henby Wise Esquire, Staff Surgeon of Travaneore who
died in this vicinity on the 25th September 1809. Strictly
honourable to his principles, a warm friend and zealous in
the discharge of his public duties, the service has lost in him a
valuable medical officer and society a man who was esteemed.
Charles Wallace Charles Wallace Young, aged 44 years. His manly gener-
YoUNG. ous and feeling mind fell a prey to melancholy occasioned
by the very indifferent prospect of success in an agricultural
speculation commenced in this province.
He was a free merchant, and on July 17th, 1801, married Ami,
daughter of James Anderson, Physician-General (No. 313).
Mrs. Young relict of C. W. Young, Esq., Free merchant
died on April 28, 1810.
William Mainwaring. William Mainwaring Esquire, in the Honourable Company's
Civil Service, aged 38 years.
Writer in 1794. His father William Mainwaring, 1737-1812, was
a Governor of Hudson's Bay Company.
Lt. W. D. Mainwaring, 2nd European Light Infantry, died
Triohinopoly on 30th May 1846.
at
2636
17th April
1812.
Benjamin Nun
Captain Benjamin Nun, H.M. 30th Regt., aet 35. Exem-
plary private worth and high public integrity characterized
the tenor of all his actions. As a tribute of respect and affec-
tion, this was erected by his friend 0. W. Gray, 30th Regiment.
2637 11th May John Harrison
1812.
John Harrison Esquire, late
Civil Service, aged 23 years.
of the Honorable Company's
Eldest son of Benjamin Harrison who was born 30 Aug. 1760 in
Charter House Square and married on 28th January 1788, at
Lisbon, Sarah, born 18 Feb. 1766 at Lisbon, only daughter of
Francis Lupton, Esq., of that place. Mr. Harrison died at Campo
Grande near Lisbon 4 April 1793. They had 6 children, John,
Charlotte (died infant), Matilda [(died unmarried), Benjamin
(M.C.S. 1792-1865) and Rev. Thomas (1793-1868). See No. 1807
283
TINNEVELLY DISTRICT — c&rU.
8«rial
number.
(1)
Date.
Name.
Inscription.
2638
23rd Sept
1812.
(2) (3) (4)
CANTONMENT BURIAL GROUND AT PALAMCOTTAH — cont
Robert Brtcb
2639
2640
2641
19th Jan.
1813.
21st June
1814.
26th Nov.
1814.
Valentine Hughes.
Andrew
son.
Farquhar-
Catherine Wahab
2642
2643
2644
2645
18th Nov.
1815.
4th Sept.
1816.
3l8t Jan.
1817.
11th June
1819.
Samuel Sawyer
Thomas Baggott
Thomas Robinson
Charles Trotter
2646 9th May Robert
1820. Youwo.
Harries
Lieut. Colonel Robert Brice, aged 40 years, late command-
ant of the garrison and the Tinnevelly district, who departed
this life on the 23rd day of September 1812 leaving a wife
and three children to deplore his loss.
He married Miss Maria Touffreville (Roman) of Pondicherry, who
died at Secunderabad, September 25th, 1848, aged 62 (see No.
803). This marriage was first done at Pondicherry and again at
Cuddalore on 14th April 1806 with the following witnesses : —
The parents of the bride Col. P. Touffreville and Mrs. Marie
Touffreville, Peisse Bausset.
At Pondicherry, Captain Hamilton, 1st N.I. married Maria, eldest
daughter of late Col. Robt. Brice in 1823.
Valentine Hughes, Lieutenant, 12th N.I., aged 27 years and
11 months.
Lieutenant Andrew Farquharson, 2nd Batt. 11th M.N.I.,
aged 24 years and 11 months. This stone is erected by his
brother Francis in memory of his many virtues and endearing
qualifications.
Francis Farquharson was an officer in the Bombay army.
Catherine relict of the late Major-General Wahab, aged 51
years.
George Wahab married on October 25, 1776, Miss Catherine Brooke*
daughter of Henry Brooke, Member of Council in 1771
(See No. 300). Henry Brooke married Miss Mary Allbeary Aug.
25, 1764.
Catherine Wahab, 5th daughter of General Wahab, died at
Masulipatam, 28th May 1820 in 28th year of her age: also Charles
Cornelius and Catherine Wahab infant children of Capt. James
Wahab commanding 6th Extra Battalion, 1820. On 5th Oct. 1807,
Lieut. J. Wahab 17th N.I., married Miss Lasalles. Lieut. Michel
Beauman (Artillery) married Miss Mary Wahab May 8, 1798
at Masulipatam.
Samuel Sawyer, born ,11th September 1776. Aged 39 years.
A merchant who did good service to the Tinnevelly Mission. Ringel
taube calls him a Portuguese merchant and the great prop of the
Mission.
Mr. Thomas Baggott, Master Attendant of Tuticorin, aged 24
years.
Son of No. 2593.
Thomas Robinson Esquire of the Honorable Company's
Civil Service, aged 35 years.
Colonel Charles Trotter commanding Palamcottah and the
Tinnevelly district, who died at Courtallam XI June
MDCCCXIX, aged LII years.
Son of Thomas Trotter, Baillie of Edinburgh, by Charlotte,
daughter of David Knox, a great nephew of the famous reformer.
Welsh mentions him in his " Reminiscences," II, 4. A great sup-
porter of the Mission.
" A man of God, a Cornelius indeed, who gives every encourage*
ment and support in his power to the native Christians in
Tinnevelly " Ringeltaube, II, 285.
In this grave are deposited the mortal remains of Robert Har-
ries Young Esquire, Collector of the Province. Surrounded
with many wordly blessings, a wife that highly revered, and
friends that much respected him, he fell suddenly by the
spasmodic cholera to change this transitory state for a better,
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Serial
number.
(1)
Date.
Name.
Inscription.
(2) (3) (4)
CANTONMENT BURIAL GROUND AT PALAMCOTTAH— cont.
on the 9th May 1820, aged 38 years. Distinguished for manljr
understanding and for the best qualities whioh dignify the
public or endear the private character. This memorial to his,
virtues and of her own affection is erected by his widow.
His widow has caused this monument to be restored in the
year of our Lord 1857.
According to the Madras Almanac of 1821, he died at Tiruchendur.
He married Miss Emilia Wetherell, May 6th, 1809 (see No. 2762).
A daughter was born to them on December 10, 1817 at Tinne-
velly (Asiatic Journal, July 1818).
He joined as writer on the Bencoolon establishment in 1797 and was
transferred to the Madras Presidency in 1803. (Princep's list of
Civil Servants.)
John Burland Htjdleston Esquire, late Collector of Tinne-
velly, aged 33 years. Erected by his afflicted widow.
James Munro, Esquire, M.C.S., who died at Palamcottah.
2647 6th May John Burland
1823. Hudleston.
2648 23rd May James Munro
1827.
2649 21st Oot. James Maxtone
1827.
2660 27th Oot. J. W. Marlay
1828.
2651 13th Mar. William Strickland.
1832.
2652 3rd July Henry Downes
1832.
2653 26th Feb. George Arthur
1835. Hughes.
Ho married, December 26th, 1821, Maria Louisa, daughter of John
Ooldingham, F.R.S., {Superintendent of the Madras Observatory
(see No. 167).
John Ooldingham married Miss Louisa Maria Popham, April 20,
1790.
Captain J. Maxtone of the 3rd Regiment, P.L.I., aged 32
years.
Ensign John William Marlay of the 3rd Regiment, aged 18
years. Erected by his affectionate sister Maria, wife of
Lieut. Colonel R. Torrens, C. B.
Torrens married, May 9th, 1825, the third daughter of Colonel
Marlay, D.Q.M.G. He was the son of No. 348.
William Strickland, Esq., late of the 6th N.I., most sincerely
lamented.
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Downes who departed this life on
the 3rd day of July 1832 in the 52nd year of his ago. Thi»
last tribute of affection is erected by his affectionate widow.
To the memory of the late George Arthur Hughes, Esq.,
aged about 65 years. His superior talents and amiable dis-
position gained him the affection and esteem of all who were
acquainted with him.
In 1844 was published a " Narrative of the last outbreak and final
subjugation of the Southern Poligars *' by Mr. George A. Hughes
of Tatchanallur, Translator to the force. The following notice
was prefixed to it by the Editor of the " Madras Journal of Litera.
ture and Science " in which it appeared : " Mr. Hughes, an
I ndo -British gentleman, well-known for his commercial enter*
prise and successful speculations, was the son of Mr. Robert
Hughes (writer, 1776 ; died in England, 17th April 1803), of the
Madras Civil Services, formerly Paymaster of Madura. He wai
sent to England at an early age and received an excellent education
under the charge of his uncle, Dr. Hughes, Principal of Jesus
College, Cambridge. On his return to India, after serving as a
clerk under the Resident of Travancore, and in the office of
Mr. S. R. Lushington, Collector of the Southern Poligar Peishcush,
he was appointed by Colonel Bannennan, the officer entrusted
with the charge of quelling the Poligar insurrection of 1709, to be
Malabar and Gentoo interpreter with the force on the pay and
allowances of a Captain, whioh was confirmed by Government on-,
the 26th September 1799. He continued in the same situation
under Colonel Agnew in 1801, and afterwards in 1808 he aooom*
panied the force under General St. Leger during the Travanoorw-
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Serial D»t#. N*me. Inscription,
number.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
CANTONMENT BURIAL GROUND AT PALAMCOTTAH — cont.
war and received the thanks of Government for his service* on
the 27th February 1809. In the interim he had engaged in com-
mercial pursuits and entered into partnership with Mr. Charles
Wallace Young, who, between 1805 and 1808, obtained a lease
of a large extent of waste land for the cultivation of coffee,
indigo, and cotton, in Timievelly at an annual rent of 2,000 rupees,
to continue till the close of the Company's Charter. On the
death of Mr. Young, in the latter part of 1809, Mr. Hughes suc-
ceeded to the lease, as assignee of that gentleman ; and on the
expiration of the Charter, the grant was renewed in 1814, on the
same terms, for the expiration of the next charter. Mr. Hughes
likewise purchased the Kulattur and Kadalgudi mittahs, and
continued engaged in various speculations with fluctuating
success until his death, which took place on the 20th February
1835."
On June 21, 1834 at St. Mary's, Bryanston, son of Lt.-Col. De Evans,
M.P. for Westminster was married to Josetta relict of Philip
Hughes, H.B.I. Co's. Servioe, daughter of the late Robert
Arbuthnot.
2654 25th Sept. Frank Bird Fabeb. Frank Bird, infant son of Capt. Fabcr, Madras Engineers,
1837, and Georgiana his wife.
C. E. Faber married, February 6th, 1830, the daughter of John Bird,
C. S., who married Georgiana Mary Dodson, October 5th, 1808
(see No. 2658). As Chief Engineer he designed the Harris*
bridge in Madras over the Cooum, erected in 1854-55.
Lieut. H. M. Faber, 6th Madras Light Cavalry died at Nagode
12th April 1859.
2655 2nd June Stuart Johnston Stuart Johnston Young of the Madras Civil Service, born
1840. Young. June 12th, 1814, died suddenly at Sattur in this district,
aged 26 years. Non mortuus cujus memoria vivit.
Cf. Campbell's . " To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die."
2650 17th Aug. John Ross .. Lieutenant Colonel John Ross of the 15th Regiment, M.N.I. ,
1843. aged 40 years. This memorial of regard was erected by
his widow and brother officers.
He married, October 19th, 1828, Harriet Annette, youngest daughter
of Colonel Daly.
RHENIUS TOMB AT PALAMCOTTAH.
2657 5th June C. T. E. Rhenius . . Charles Theophilus Ewald Rhenius, born on the 5th
1838. November 1790. Landed at Madras on the 4th July 1814.
Died at Palamcottah on the 5th July [sic] 1838.
A distinguished philologist.
Khenius and Schnarre landed together at Madras on 4th July 1814
(Taylor's memoirs, etc., p. 150). On March 7, 1816, at the
Presidency ho married Miss Anne Van Someren.
MONUMENTS IN PALAMCOTTAH CHURCH.
2658 8th Mar. Geobge Emilius and This stone perpetuates in their birth place the memory of
1875 and James Wbbstbb Geobge Emilius Bibd and James Websteb Bibd, both of
28th Jan. Bibi». H.M. Civil Service, the sons of Charles James Bird, of Little
1876. Hatherley, Cheltenham, formerly Collector of this district.
George Emilius Bird arrived in India in 1871, and was for
four years employed in this district, where, by his bright
and amiable disposition he endeared himself to all, whether
European or Native, with whom he was brought in contact.
He died at Coimbatore, on the 8th of March 1875, aged 25
years. James Webster Bird joined his brother in Palamcot-
tah, in December 1874, and after serving with assiduous
diligence for little more than a year, and gaining universal
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Serial
number.
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Date.
(2)
Name.
Inscription.
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1878.
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MONUMENTS IN PALAMOOTTAH CHURCH — cont.
esteem, died at Tuticorin, on the 28th of January 1876,.
aged 23 years. Both brothers, by their earnestness of charac-
ter and by devotion to their profession, gave high promise
of a distinguished and useful career ; and their memory is
cherished with affectionate regret for their early deaths
among the friends who erect this tablet.
C. J. Bird died in England, April 21st, 1879. He married, February
16th, 1847, Emily Honor, eldest daughter of James Webster, of
Hatherley Park near Cheltenham. He was the son of John Bird,
C.S., 1801-45, and brother of E. W. Bird, C.S., 1823-1903 (see
No. 1810).
Jambs Clark Seaton. In affectionate remembrance of James Clark Seaton, b.a.,
(Oxon.) of H. M. Civil Service of India and youngest and
dearly loved son of Edward C. Seaton of London, M.D. He
died at Tinnevelly on Christmas Day 1878 (aged 22 years)
in consequence of a fall from his horse. Throughout his career
as a student he had shewn qualities which endeared him to
all who knew him, and gave high promise of usefulness and
distinction in the service of his country. On his arrival in
this country he was appointed Assistant to the Collector of
this district, but had scarcely entered on his duties, when he
met with the lamentable accident by which his life was
suddenly cut short. His father, sorrowing with his family
for this irreparable loss, has caused this tablet to be erected
1879.
Grandson of Edward of London. Gent. University, 16th Oot.
1874, aged 17, b.a., 1877.
2660
13th Oot.
1845.
John Gunning
2661
2662
4th Sept.
1848.
5th Sept.
1799.
J. A. ROOSMALE COCQ
Robert
Philip
Edwakd Henry
Collins, John
Blake, Finny.
COURTALLUM.
Major John Gunning of the 17th M.N.I., Commanding the
Nair Brigade in Travancore, second son of the late Sir George
Gunning, Bart, of Horton, Northamptonshire, aged 43 years.
Of the same family as the beautiful Misses Gunning. He was born
21st December 1801. He married, September 8th, 1827, Jessie,
daughter of Rev. CM. Babington. His ion Octavius Orlando
Bridgeman, aged 7 years, died of eholera on 28th December
1846 at Iramattur, Salem district, en route from Nilgiri Hills to
Madras. His daughter, Marie Sidonie, aged 3 years, died at
Amboorpet on 30th December of the same year. He left a eon,
John Campbell, Colonel, Madras Staff Corps, born 1835 and
married in 1865 Mary Anne, daughter of J. R. Boyaon, Esq.,
Mrs. Jessie Miller Gunning was the executrix.
On 14th Jan. 1861, at St. Thomas Mount, the infant son of Lieut.
C. G. Gunning, born 11 Jan. 1861, died.
James Ambrose Roosmale Cooq, Esq., of Tuticorin, aged 52
years.
CEMETERY AT OTTAPPIDARAM.
Douglas, In memory of Lieuts. Douglas, Dormibux, Collins and
Dobmieux, Blake and Gunner Finny who fell in the attack of Punja-
lamcoorchy on the 5th September 1799.
The event referred to is the first assault on Panjalamkurichi during
what is known as the Bannerman-Poligar War. The attack
failed and was only remarkable for the very heavy casualties
sustained by the British troops. Referring to this Major Banner,
man wrote : " The moment my time will allow of it, I shall state
to the Co mm a n der-in-Chief my sentiments relative to the conduct
of the native officers and troops. The circumstance of one native
officer being only wounded, contrasted with four European*
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officers killed and two wounded, will sufficiently mark the want of
energy on the part of the natives." Reinforcements were sent
from Palamoottah, but a second assault was rendered unnecessary
owing to the Poligar having abandoned the fort. Lieutenant
Douglas was in the Bengal Artillery ; Dormieux and Collins
in the 1st Battalion and Blake in the 2nd Battalion N.I.
Philip Dormieux, " 1st Batt. 7th Regiment NJ. " was at Jaffna ,
July 1797.
CEMETERY AT PANJALAMKURICHI, GAVUNAGIRI VILLAGE, OTTAPPIDARAM TALUK.*
2663 24th May Dougald W. Gil- Here lie the remains of Dougald W. Gilchrist, Lieutenant of
1801, christ. His Majesty's 74th Regiment. This gallant youth who had
not attained his one and twentieth year was killed on the
24th of May A.D. 1801 in the breach of the fort of Punjalum-
oourchy in the moment of victory. By his death, His Majes-
ty's service lost an officer of great enterprise and valour, and
sooiety a beloved and valuable member.
Urquhart (Vol. 1, page 75) prints an elegiac poem of three pages to
his memory. " He had so distinguished himself as to be beloved
by the whole force. 11 — Welsh.
26 )4 31st Mar. John Campbell, Sacred to the memory of Captain John Campbell, Lieutenants
and 24th Alex. Campbell, A. Campbell, D. Gilchrist and P. Shanks of H.M. 74th
May 1801. Dugald W. Gil- Regiment, Lieutenants J. Spalding and A. Campbell,
christ, P. Shanks, H.M. 77th Regiment, Lieutenant M. Egan 1st Battalion
John Spalding, 3rd Regiment N.I., Lieutenants W. Fraser and K. Mang-
Alex. Campbell, nall 1st Bn. 4th Regiment N.I., Lieutenant C. Torriano,
Michael Egan, 1st Bn. 9th Regiment N.I., who bravely fell or died of wounds
William Fraser, received in assaults on the fort of Punjalumcourchy, on the
Kay Mangnall, 31st March and 24th May 1801.
Charles Torriano.
These casualties occurred in the second and last Poligar War, after
which the district came permanently into the hands of the Bri-
tish. Colonel James Welsh, who served throughout the campaign,
describes it in detail in hift Military Reminiscences, remarking
that " no account of this service had been given to the public,
and it was customary, while gallant fellows were falling covered
with glorious wounds, to put down the casualty in our news*
papers as if they had died in their beds, thus * Deaths.' Lately
to the Southward, Captain— or Lieut. — Panjalumcourchy fort,
the Gibraltar of the insurgents he calls "an abominable dog-
kennel, the system of defending which would have done credit
to any engineer." His description of the Dumb Brother, who
was the soul of the defence, is so curious as to be worth quoting :
" I cannot close this account of horrors without a few words in
memory of one of tho most extraordinary mortals I ever knew ;
a near relation of Catabomia Naig's, who was both deaf and
dumb, was well known by the English under the appellation of
Dumby or the Deaf Brother, by tho Mussalmans as Mookah, and
by the Hindoo as Oomee, all having the like signification. He
was a tall, slender lad, of a very sickly appearance, yet possessing
that energy of mind, which in troubled times always gains pre-
eminence, whilst in his case the very defect which would have
impeded another, proved a powerful auxiliary in the minds of
ignorant and superstitious idolaters. The Oomee was adored ;
his slightest sign was an oracle, and every man flew to execute
whatever he commanded. No Council assembled at which he
did not preside ; no daring adventure was undertaken, which he
did not lead. His method of representing the English was
extremely simple ; he colleoted a few little pieces of straw,
arranged them on the palm of his left hand to represent the
English force; then, with other signs, for the time, etc., he
drew the other hand across and swept them off, with a
* Now called Kovilpatti Taluk.
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TALUK — cont.
whizzing sound from the mouth which was the signal for attack ;
and he was generally the foremost in executing those plans* for
our annihilation. Whatever undisciplined valour could effect,
was sure to be achieved wherever he appeared ; though poor
Oomee was at last doomed to grace a gallows, in reward for the
most disinterested and purest patriotism.' 1
CEMETERY AT VIRUDUPATTI *
2 666 7th April David Agnew This tomb was erected by the officers of the 3rd Regiment
1827. of Palamcottah Light Infantry to the memory of Major
David Agnew, who died on the 7th April 1827.
2666 3rd Mar. Geoegb Babtholo- 8acred to the memory of Ensign G. B. Clark, 15th Regiment
1829* mew Clark. N.I., who died at this place on the 3rd March A.D. 1829, aged
21 years. This monument is erected by the officers of the
Regiment as a mark of their respect and esteem.
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